One of the highlights of our visit was the visit to a couple of Afrikaner farms in the moutains near Port Elizabeth. They were wonderful hosts. The students learned a good deal of what it meant to live so far from any of the common amenities of city life in America and learned a good deal about this hearty people.
After a long drive, in which we got lost and extended our trip for about two hours on dirt roads, we arrived at our destination. The bottom two photos illustrate the drive and one of the sights we passed was this abandoned Afrikaner church. The vast changes still taking place in South Africa have resulted sometimes in whites not feeling safe in the bush and moving into more populated areas.
When we arrived at the farm, we had a feast waiting for us. Two new experiences I had was accidentally eating a fried sheep testicle - thinking it was a breaded mushroom - and on purpose having some porcupine snacks that were sort of like little meatballs. We spent much of the evening at fireside talking with our new hosts long into the night.
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