Time for Tanzania!

Arrived last night around 9:00 where we stepped off the rickety puddle jumping plane onto the runway, walked across the runway an into the airport where I could get a visa right at the counter and met one of the passport officers who had a daughter named Faith.  Nice.

Room is noisy, pulsing with energy and excitement as young people and geeks begin or return from their climbs.  I meet with my guide at 5:30 tonight, and today is a day to myself for a change; I've just spent two weeks with the most wonderful people, but it was people nonetheless, which means constant chatter, something I need long respites from.  I am in many ways drained, and so I begin my one day to myself where I shall walk the2 kms into Moshi Town to visit a coffee shop (good coffee, I hear), read my book (I brought two but have just entered one), and look at birds, flora and fauna...

I dare not attach another photo as the internet AND computer are unreliable.  More when I return...

I see that for some strange reason a photo of me and Grace partially uploaded.  This is the young woman I am sponsoring, and the woman who organizes these sponsorships claims that I have saved her from an early marriage in her Masai community.  She hopes to become a heart surgeon and return to help her village of only 57 people!  She is articulate and sweet.