After nearly 3 months of working together, we dropped my dad off at the Durban airport and said goodbye before he flew back home to Minnesota (where temperatures can drop below -10F, as opposed to our area’s highs of over 30C). This has been the best farther-son project I could have imagined, and though I’ll have a lot to finish off now that he’s left, I don’t know how I could have gotten this far without his help. We worked hard up to the very end of his time here in South Africa, running out of time to go on a hiking trip we’d hoped to fit in. I guess that means he’ll have to come back sometime so we can go hiking and build a deck!