After 17 hours of flying and about 10 hours of sitting in Airports aimlessly, I have come to two conclusions. The first being never travel without wheels attached to your duffle bag. My bag is only 45 pounds. Not too bad considering I have huge bottles of shampoo and conditioner and more than five bottles of sunscreen. However, while nearly killing my own back, a very nice Ugandan man offer to carry my bag for me from the Entebbe airport to the van parked nearby. I tried to tell him it was heavy and I didn't want him to have to carry it. Nonetheless, he did. After about fifty yards, he realized I was not lying and enlisted another man to help. First lesson from traveling to Africa: be able to carry your own luggage easily otherwise you feel like a goober.
The next conclusion I have is that American life is simply too fast pace and stressful.I may be in a new country, not understand their major language, be overheated, and have little clue about what I will be doing the next two months. But this is the least amount of stress I have felt for years. The culture here is welcoming and friendly. Take things as they go and don't worry about time or minor stressors. We'll see if I continue to like this with my North-eastern ways and continuous fast walking; but for now, it is a change that is calming.
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Thinking of you Hal! I love reading your posts, miss you!
ReplyDeletethe fact that you havent written in a day or so provides two possible scenerios. one, something bad has happened. two, you just are so busy doing what you do that you havent had time to. i am hoping that it is the second one. hope all is going great
ReplyDeleteYou never gave me your email address and you have not posted in a couple of days so I hop that you are enjoying yourself. In any case please do give me your contact info so that I may write you more properly.
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Steven