The day has finally arrived. As I write this, I am about half an hour from Pastor Kevin arriving with his pickup truck full of footlockers. He's going to take me to the airport here in Austin, where we'll meet Ralph, Howard and Martha for the flight to London. British Air just added direct flights to Heathrow last April. This will take the place of driving down to Bush International in Houston, paying for long-term parking and reversing the process at the end of the trip. It should knock nearly a day of travel out of the total. Our only concern at this point is that we only have an hour and a ten minute layover in London. Even though we will be flying into the same terminal, Terminal 5, that we will be departing from, we will almost certainly have to go through security. I'm praying that our flight from Austin makes good time and there will be some British Air employees on the ground that can shepherd us through the whole process. If we miss our flight, we will be given vouchers for a Kenyan Air flight later in the day, but wouldn't get to Nairobi until 5am Saturday, rather than 10:30pm Friday night as originally planned. I'm supposed to help lead a group in two vans on a local safari early Saturday to the Nairobi Game Park. Should be interesting, to say the least, if we're on that other flight. I know I'll sleep well Saturday night if that happens!
More to follow as I have time, Internet and electricity. All three can be in short supply at times! If we miss the flight in London, you'll see more written from Heathrow. If not, it may be Saturday or even Sunday before the next entry appears here. We'll be staying at Rosa Mystica, a Catholic convent, during the week and will be a block from a coffee shop called Java House that has good wifi. So, I should be pretty regular during the week in telling tall tales about our adventures in and around Nairobi. Blessings, everybody!
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