My journey continued on a new road as we accompanied Dorree Hosokawa, an adopted girl from Tanzania who is a member of our group, as she visited her birth family.  Her family lives in the bush on a boma(a group of huts where extended family live with their cattle in the Massai tradition).  It was very emotional but also heartwarming to see the birth and adoptive families join together.  We were served a delicious meal of roasted goat and rice with a broth that was very flavorful.  On our way to the boma we saw a group of Massai boys with painted bodies who were preparing for circumcision.  It was a truly remarkable day.
In closing I will relate a comment made to me as several of us were returning on foot to the Lodge.  A young man on a bicycle said to me "It is a good day when white people are walking"!  Earla