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Quick check-in.  We’ve made it safely to Dubai.  Emerates Airline does a marvelous job but 12 hours crammed in an upright seat is still twelve hours of to much posterior pressure and not enough moving around.  So here is what Bill and I look like after a twelve hour flight on top of getting up real early in the morning to get to the airport on time. 

And this is where we are;  Dubai Airport is very modern….and our final stop for Starbuck’s coffee until we return in three weeks.

 

Here we go again.   We’re packing our bags with loads of equipment, a guitar and clothing.   5 bags in all to take with us to Tanzania for our three week trip to Kasulu.   We’re pretty excited and a little bit exhausted from the hunting and gathering we’ve been doing for the past 4 weeks to get all of the items we need together for this year’s mission.   

Tomorrow morning at 6AM, we’ll be on our way to JFK airport to catch our flight to Dubai.   I’m looking forward to the time on the flight, strangely enough.    Once we are there, we can really sit back and relax for a while.   12 hours of that on the first leg of the trip and then after a brief layover, we’ll catch the next flight to Dar Es Salaam.   That one is about 5 1/2 hours long.    Once we get to Dar, there will be a 30 minute or so drive into the city to our hotel.    It’s a long trip, but very much worth it.    I’m looking forward to getting there.   And I’m especially looking forward to the first morning.   It’s always great to get up and out into the city.   We have some business to attend to there, such as getting cell phone SIMM cards and purchasing more computer equipment for KBC.   

The Lord truly has blessed our time of preparation.  We’ve been very forward focused for some time now.   What I enjoy the most when we are in Kasulu is focusing more on each day as it comes along and looking to be in the moment rather than always looking ahead.   That will be a pleasure.

Keep us in prayer and stop in each day.   We will try to post each day as time allows.

Blessings to your all.

 

Bill 

DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, UNITED EMERITES.  Writing this during our layover in Dubai. We’ve had our first Starbucks in over two weeks (hot chocolate for me – I hope to get SOME sleep on the flight to New York) and are currently camped out in some lounge chairs.  Most folks use them for napping.  We just want to be able to get out feet up for an hour or so.  These flights always leave my ankles swollen for several days, even though I try to do the suggested “in seat exercies”.

I was hoping to have a praise report  about my lost kindle, but I’m afraid that it is remaining somewhere in Tanzania.  I’ve de-registered it with Amazon and ordered a new one.  However something, or rather someone else that was lost has been found:  our original technology vendor, who we have not been able to get in touch with this year.  We were waiting for our flight in the Tanzanite Lounge at the Dar Airport and there he was with his entire family.  They were on our flight to Dubai, on their way to Toronto for a summer holiday.  So good to know that they are all okay.

In closing this post, I’ll leave you with some final pictures of the Guest House that is under construction at the DWT compound: