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January 18, 2011

Remember 'The Trip'? Well, It's Happening.

Stephen Kreider Yoder, Isaac Yoder & Levi Yoder:

STEVE: In three weeks, Levi and I will be in northern Tanzania. Or on a cargo boat on Lake Victoria, or lost in a Ugandan village -- I'm not exactly sure.

Sound crazy? I think so. I blame the ex-Army guy who runs the military-surplus store in Berkeley.

Yes, we finally decided to take The Trip. We wrote last year about my fantasy of pulling Levi out of school for six months to seek the sites of our human roots in Africa and then trace the dawn of civilization by vagabonding overland along the Rift Valley, on down the Nile and into the Middle East.

The scheme made no sense. It didn't make financial sense to take a leave from my great job. It was imprudent for Levi's education. It wasn't logical to abandon our comfortable life, leave behind my wife, Karen, and spend money on a whimsical journey when so many others were less fortunate than we.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 18, 2011 2:30 AM
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