Home in Tchaourou

Chez Nous. Take the main road north out of Cotonou five hours and then ask for the white couple. That would be us.

We live in a concession (walled in lot a little less than an acre) with two other families. To our left is the Chef d’Arrondisment - the mayor by American standards - and to our left are the Opposi family, the matriarch of which happens to also be Jaren’s counterpart.

For some general pictures of the place before we moved in, check the old post from our first visit. However , we’ve made a few changes, the biggest of which being the complete swap of the living room and kitchen. In addition to now heating our food in a room twice as large (thus cutting the amount of sweating down to “everpresent,” a vast improvement over “swimming pool”), it also gives us a proper guest room in the back.

The other change is the status of the latrine, which was vastly improved with one simple addition:
Before and After





And now Steve can get some thinking done, although the shower is still out of the equation. Without plumbing, whatever pondering he might do in the shower is really just time he’s standing like an idiot naked and wet in the back yard.