The Latest

Well, here is the latest. It seems that the IMB is serious about us going to Malawi. We received an email with our flight schedule. We leave Huntsville April 10 around noon. We will be able to sleep late that day, as if we have been able to sleep for the past week. We may have to get up and go have our last breakfast in the US for the next 18 months. What would you have if it were your last meal before the greatest adventure of your life?

Well anyway, we fly to Dallas, and I thought Africa was in the other direction, then overnight, over the Atlantic to London. Maybe they need to get a little extra running start for that distance over the water.

We arrive at Heathrow Saturday morning and stay there allllllll day. We leave from London at 7:05pm headed for Johannesburg, South Africa. They must have some new headlight on the plane they are trying to break in. When I was a Boy Scout we learned we should rest during the day and travel at night but I thought that was if we were lost in the desert. It could also be that they don't want to feed us and only travel between supper and breakfast.

We will land in Jo'berg at 6:55am. What did I tell you, just before breakfast and leave for Lilongwe just after lunch. We arrive, wouldn't you know it, just before supper. We have been traveling now for three day and haven't had a single meal. They must have hired a retired NASA rocket scientist to figure that schedule out.

Mzimba is a 3 and a half hour drive from Lilongwe. No McDonalds, no Crackerbarrels, not even a Waffle House. Just people selling "bush meat" on a stick. I guess if you are hungry enough, you will eat anything.

Well, maybe not grubs.

I just hope I don't have to drive us to Mzimba. Three day with out sleep or food and I'm expected to drive on the wrong (left) side of the road. Now that could be ugly.