It began in Africa-a-a-a

Tonight I'm boarding a flight bound for Cairo. The plane leaves at 10pm. Tomorrow morning i'll be in Amsterdam for an eight hour layover. I hope to visit the van Gogh museum. Tomorrow night I board another plane and arrive in Cairo at 2am Thursday. Ed's flying from Baghdad to Cairo Thursday afternoon. We've planned to meet at the Mariott on Zamalek Island.

If everything goes according to plan, on Sunday we board another plane for Addis Ababa, arriving the same day. We've planned to spend three and a half to four weeks in Ethiopia, though we have only a very vague sense of what we're going to do. I bought my ticket two weeks ago; I bought the guidebook a week ago.

The other night before bed, I finally cracked open the spine and began to trace possible routes. Ed tells me he's printed out his research from websites. In Cairo we'll have a few days to catch up on sleep and to figure out a plan over Scrabble. I'll be back in New York October 24th. In the meantime, I'll be blogging from the road as opportunity allows. Have a great fall.
Posted by eku at September 19, 2006 12:08 PM