An uneventful flight! Yeah!! Just sitting at our gate for the next leg of our journey which is an 8 plus hour flight to Kilimanjaro. We are seated throughout the plane and not together, so the Shirati Project Team will spread our message even further this morning. That seems to be one of the silver linings of our delay so far. We have shared our story with a lot of interested folks, with one woman from Germany asking where she could donate to Days for Girls.
Kilimanjaro airport will be interesting as we need to guide our herd of 15 suitcases (we trust that they will join us in Kili!) through Tanzania Customs which typically is set up in "stampede" mode. Any kind of an organized line up has been a pipe dream in the past. We need to purchase Business Visas, meet and pay the Days for Girls driver to take the 9 non personal suitcases to Shirati, convert our American cash to Tanzanian shillings, meet our Safari driver and drive to our hotel in Arusha for supper and sleep.
The Safari will start Saturday morning, a day later than originally planned. We expect to work on the next Saturday so that we don't lose a work day on the Project. Time to board!
Kilimanjaro airport will be interesting as we need to guide our herd of 15 suitcases (we trust that they will join us in Kili!) through Tanzania Customs which typically is set up in "stampede" mode. Any kind of an organized line up has been a pipe dream in the past. We need to purchase Business Visas, meet and pay the Days for Girls driver to take the 9 non personal suitcases to Shirati, convert our American cash to Tanzanian shillings, meet our Safari driver and drive to our hotel in Arusha for supper and sleep.
The Safari will start Saturday morning, a day later than originally planned. We expect to work on the next Saturday so that we don't lose a work day on the Project. Time to board!