Picture on Mount Kilimanjaro are (left to right) climbers Dolph Tillotson, Jim Galbraith, Richard Henderson, Tom Kimbrough, Brent Masel and Harry Wallfisch.

By Dolph Tillotson
Published February 3, 2002

I awoke Saturday dreaming of Africa. In the dream, we were seated, exhausted, at Askari Point near the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was treeless, bleak and very cold.

From Jan. 11 to Jan. 25, 2002, six friends from Galveston traveled to Africa. We explored a place that was strange, beautiful and sometimes sad because poverty and illness live so close to so much beauty.

We're home again, and home looks very good. But - and this is what I thought about as I woke from my dream of Africa - home also looks different somehow.

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