What is a great way to end a long-term volunteer work?  

Travel. c”,)

So me and my backpack have been roughing it up over the past 4 weeks in Madagascar.  Went local (but still paid at times like a tourist!).  We’ve been regulars of all their means of public transportation — taxi-be (like marshrutkas), taxi-brousse (trucks that take passengers), real truck (that’s brimming with stuffs and animals, then filled with 50-60 people if space permits….what space?!), back of pick-up cars also filled with things and people, pirogue (a small boat operated by paddle and sail), and cart pulled by zebu.

Met wonderful people.  Saw wonderful and remote places. Experienced another country — its people and culture.  Learned a lot.  

Fun.  Tiring.  Body (and pocket) aching.

(Photo: This ring-tailed lemur posed for me, as if on cue.  Tsinamanpesotse National Park, Tsinamanpesotse, Madagascar)