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I thank CUSO for the exciting years of my early working life in Africa; CIDA for the middle years, and the voters of my former federal constituency for many of the latter years. I have been motivated by family and friends, especially my sisters, my brother, and my three children to share these true life adventures with you and I thank them for their urging. I must admit that for decades I have had the inclination to share the stories with a wider audience, and thus encourage young people to follow their dreams as I did mine. Having spent some time as a teacher I cannot resist observing that the more one gets done early in life, the shorter ones bucket-list will be later on—as Nike says: Just Do It!

Take good notes and lots of photos however, as the faded memory syndrome becomes a reality as we age. Keep a diary as your mother or father doubtless suggested, for one never knows when you’ll decide to do as I have done and share the past with the present.

Without the encouragement and professional analysis of my editor, Michael Baxendale, this projet de memoire would never have come to pass.

Barry Turner, Ottawa, 2012