It's funny, no actually hilarious when . . . .

You realize that recreation is best appreciated the more it is differs from your day-to-day activities.    For example we were raised playing outdoors, even if that meant Mom would lock the door and make you stay outside for a prescribed time.  It was fun and added adventure and imagination to our upbringing.  Or a camping outing was neat because it was so different from our hurried city life. 

So it’s interesting that now our idea of recreation is reversed, involving more pampering and structure than it used to because we never know what will happen next.  Imagine we’ve been invited to go camping right here in Liberia, but have declined the offer because who needs it when at any time the generator and the local electricity provider decide not to work at the same time?  And it just so happens at 6 a.m. on your cookday when there are 6+ hungry bellies to fill by 7:15. . . .

Or,  running across your feet as you exit your bathroom is an uninvited lizard.  See how we do it at the Paynesville camp.