Sitting in the Java Lounge, at the far end of the airport, where I didn’t walk the last time I was here on the way to Rwanda. Quaint, international – coffees, teas, sodas, juices, beer & wine, and HOT DOGS ! With a soccer game on viewable from one of three different screens, I think I can kill these next 5 hours without a ton of difficulty. All kinds of nationalities present – many different Africans, Eurpeans, and Americans (different languages being spoken), A member of the US state department security force is talking with a Brit who’s also in security – all I can hear is about the preparations for G7 (international conference). But they stop long enough to cheer as a GOOOOOOAL has just been scored on a brilliant header! There’s a gentleman reading Bill Clinton’s biography, another reading the bible. And women reading whatever the equivalent is of the National Enquirer…..
Hot Dog is actually a chicken frank, microwave’d, just like I like ‘em…..bland bun, needs mustard – ahhhh, that’s better. Hmmm… not bad. ‘Course, with a beer, even cardboard and mustard would work…now then.....what to do - ahhh.....shopping for trinkets before leaving Africa....6:30am Sitting in the Amsterdam airport, having left Kenya..........sat on the ground in Kenya for about an hour longer than planned, as they had to fix the in-cabin air conditioning (good thing, lots of
passengers on this flight have never been educated on body odor & deoderant.......anyway, nice middle-of-the-night flight, slept about 3 hours, watched a movie (don't know the name of it, but it was really good, about a child prodigy musician who is abandoned at birth, only to have his birth mother & father reunite at the same time that they find himi - she's a concert cellist, he's a rock guitarist/singer).....So, Amsterdam doesn't wake up until 9am, so there's no point in going into town this morning, as nothing will be open.....this airport is a city by itself, so there's plenty to do and see - as soon as I'm done with this blog posting, I'm going to find a locker, stash my carry-ons, and go sightseeing, for sure stopping in at the casino and the massage place, just like I do passing through a week ago.....
What an amazing trip, made all the better by this ability to blog and record my thoughts/experiences in real time. A great journal for me to reflect on later as I relate all the details of this trip.Much thanks to all of you who've read this blog, and have left comments or sent email- GREAT to have this connection with friends and family, letting me know that YOU have read the blog care enough to comment.
I am so impressed with this side of the world - in many, many ways, more advanced and logically thinking that the USA. I have had NO experiences of the ugly American kind - everyone has been extremely friendly and helpful and accomodating, and other Americans I've talked with say much the same thing.
1 comment:
so...how did you train that little jet to fly out of your laptop?....and I'll say this: I never met a hotdog I didn't like...thanks for keeping us in the loop on your expedition, Cuz....I am a better-informed individual now due to your insightful reporting!
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