Full Circle

Why full circle?

Well simply enough, back in January 1985 I ended up in Botswana to help assist in the opening of a new Community Junior Secondary School in the village of Makaleng.  During my two years there I met a lot of interesting people from Canada and all over the world, got to travel throughout southern Africa and meet my “partner in crime”, who was a nurse in the village.

Jumping forward to 2011, my brother Dave and his 2 kids joined Binnie, Gordon and I on a trip home to Botswana to see first-hand where Binnie hailed from. One evening, over a few beers, he planted the idea that we should built a retirement home in Thamaga, Binnie’s home town.

It has taken a few trips back to Botswana since then to make this happen but now we are into the final phase of this project as shown by the picture at the top of the blog.

Thus, Binnie arrives this morning for a 7-week visit to oversee the completion of the interior of the house.  If all goes according to plan, by the time she leaves in March, the work will be well on its way and she and the builder will have bought everything that is needed to finish the house so that it is ready for occupancy later in 2018.

With retirement looming in just over 3 months I look forward to being able to spend a part of each year in Thamaga and avoid a good chunk of the Canadian winter.

So, what follows will be a record of the process of completing the construction of our house in Thamaga, Botswana, 33 years after I first set foot in Botswana.