There are so many interesting things here that we don't ever see at home. People make their living in ways that have long since disappeared from the US. On three different trips to Likasi we saw men herding their cattle to market. On one of those trips we gave a ride home to a member from Likasi who had been visiting Lubumbashi for meetings. As we were driving through the bush we came upon a small herd of cattle being driven down the road. The man with us told us that these men walk and herd their cattle 700km (about 435 miles) to market in Lubumbashi. 
We had to go very slowly through the herd to continue on our trip. The herdsman asked us for water and we were sad that we had none to give them. I can't imagine what a difficult trip that must be. In the rainy season they would be rained on daily and in the dry season they would walk the whole way in a suffocating cloud of dust.
One trip we saw the herdsman on our way to Likasi. We were in Likasi for two days and when we returned home, we saw them again, still walking toward Lubumbashi. People here have to work extraordinarily hard just to survive.
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