Chapter 7: Africa
CHAPTER 7: AFRICA The week before we arrived in Venezuela, USA Today published an article on the ten best places to live in the USA. Number 1 was Hattiesburg and number 2 was Ft. Myers. When my second wife and I moved back to the USA from Ecuador with our two year old son and new born daughter, we moved to Hattiesburg. After three years there getting graduate degrees, growing into parenthood, and struggling to find happiness in our relationship, we moved to Ft. Myers for a job closer to my wife’s sister. Happiness continued to elude us. At one point a marriage counselor offered the sage advice, “You know, some people just shouldn’t be married.” To try to rebuild the life and relationship we had as young single childless teachers working in international schools, we decided to take our family overseas. As the bus full of new teachers for Escuela Campo Alegre crept through the smog filled tunnels that pierced the mountains between the airport in the coastal town of Maiquetia and C...