Lindsay in Lesotho

Here are some shots from Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope, the view from the patio at our inn, and the botanical gardens.

I never would have said it before, but the breast pump was an incredible invention. They don’t seem to exist here in Lesotho, and I never wo...

Rafe and I are at Hluhluwe-Imfolowzi, a game reserve in the Kwazulu-Natal state of South Africa. This reserve is 1/20th the size of Kruger (...

The people of Lesotho, the Basotho, are amazingly friendly and kind. Now that it is coming time for me to leave, all of the local Basotho wh...

1. Estimated time of Departure = 3pm, Actual Time of Departure = 6pm 2. Flat tire in the middle of pitch-black mountains—never knew the fla...

Rafe and I have been traveling since my last post, and this is the first that I've had internet (or much electricity, in fact). So, I...

In the States, patients who use inhalers are supposed to use them with spacers (a chamber that you attach to the inhaler to ensure that the ...

Our cottage, like all buildings in Lesotho it seems, does not have heat. However, at this high altitude, it gets quite cold at night (and in...

Yesterday, I climbed Thaba Bosiu, a important historical site for the Kingdom of Lesotho. It is the site that King Moshoeshoe I (pronounced ...

My computer hates me. It is currently paying me back for the hundreds of times that I have declined to update my computer with t...

Many people take their work home with them, but some people never stop working. Empo is an HIV counselor. She is employed by B...

I am currently living about 8 minutes from South Africa. However, to get into South Africa I have get my passport stamped twice—in two diffe...

This is my kind of country. One of my most embarrassing secrets is that I have a baby blanket that I refuse to get rid of, and I sleep with ...

I learned a new word. When discussing family planning with one HIV+ mother we were seeing at clinic with her HIV+ child, she quickly respond...