The family-and-friends vacation on Tybee Island was great fun. 

Highlights for me:

• Preparing red beans and rice for a group dinner on the beach, where the adults and kids sat on blankets under the moon and stars.
• Stepping into Inferno, a tiny shop with hundreds of bottles of hot sauce -- I bought a smoky jalapeno sauce that was quite tasty on the beans and rice. 
• Good pizza and cold beer on the deck at Huc-a-Poo's Bites and Booze, which is in the same cluster of shops as Inferno. 

Peace Corps and back

Three of the four friends who joined us on Tybee -- Kevin Anderson and Erika Rundiks, and Bridgit (Greene) Adamou -- were our fellow Peace Corps volunteers in the Republic of Vanuatu in the late 1990s. Kevin and Erika went back to Vanuatu with their daughter seven years ago. As we at beans and rice on Tybee beach, they talked about the experience of going back, and gave us tips for our return. Erin and I are getting serious about taking our family back next summer.

My mentor and friend, David Jarmul, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal in the 1970s. He met his wife there. David retired from Duke University in 2015, and then he and Champa joined the Peace Corps again. Now they're in the Republic of Moldova, and David is blogging his experience at Not Exactly Retired.

Someday, maybe we'll re-up ...