During the long break at Christmas in '63, I got a ride to Bukoba, Tanzania to hook up with Tom (?) for a trip with Jerry Schieber to South Africa.  We took a boat to the railroad at Mwanza on Lake Victoria.  We crossed Tanzania by rail to the town where Jerry was teaching. We fixed Jerry's Landrover up to sleep three.  We went into Dar es Salaam and took a boat to Zanzibar. Tom had to get vaccinated as he had forgotten his yellow card.  We returned via boat. Leaving there, we came back and joined the Great North Road. We entered the Rhodesian and Nyasaland Federation, our goal being Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). When we got there we toured the old Zimbabwe castle(?) then went to a political meeting where they were discussing what to do about the native peoples.  Apparently an election was imminent. We visited Rhodes's grave. On to Victoria Falls for the full moon rainbow circle.  Standing on the bridge over the gorge, we saw a perfect circle instead of a bow.

After that it was on to South Africa. We went to Basutoland via a switchback road that took your breath away.  Then to Swaziland, through Zululand to get to Natal, midnight mass in the cathedral, the only integrated place in the country. Down the East Coast towards the Cape.  Stopped and went to see some cave drawings by aboriginal people. The men in the drawings all had erect penises. Down to Capetown, we saw beautiful scenery with the mountains on the right and the sea on the left.  We stayed in a hostel, went to the Cape of Good Hope then swung up to Jo'burg, visited Debeers and the gold mine.  I came away with the feeling that the whites had a deep distrust and fear of the various tribes. This distrust kept whites in a constant state of siege. There was no night life. Once we left South Africa, we hauled out for Tanzania.  I took the train back to the lake, got a boat to Kampala and a bus back to Mbarara.  I arrived completely broke and had to call the Ntare School to get a ride home. Who knew that the future president of Uganda was in our classes at the time?