After years of dreaming, and 8 months of planning, it is finally happening! I am safely tucked away at my hotel for the night, and will be picked up tomorrow for my 3 hour trip to the village that will be my home for the next few months. Kilimanjaro airport was hopping with one luggage carousel, 4 custom booths, and more taxi drivers than passengers. And, as my luck would have it, I got singled out at the Declaration Area...Bringing donations is a good thing, but guess you have to pay for it!
Nevertheless, I am quite excited, nervous, and my head is in a bit of a fog, but I'll blame that on traveling for 24 hours. In other words, 4 liters of water, 10.5 (line was too long)trips to the bathroom, 1 paperback, 2 plane movies, 13 tissues, half my ipod, and 56.2 gazillion germs later, I am on terra firma in Arusha, Tanzania.
I would love to tell you of the exotic animals and incredible scenery thus far, but it has been dark since my arrival 2 hours ago, so I'll save that for the light of day. FOr the record, it is 10 hours ahead here of Pacific Coast time...
Good night and sweet dreams.
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3 comments:
glad you are there safe and sound. I was bored today while driving so I tried calling your cell just for fun.
not surprisingly, it went to voicemail. =)
(some things never change! haha!)
I am so proud of you Amber! I can't wait to hear more. I'm giving you a huge hug hello and planning our Bourne marathon for when you get back.
Hey Queen Abababba! You made it! Two blog entries so far - doing good. They were very entertaining. . .and so were the comments afterwords! Hilarious!
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