Packing Days and Other Prep

We are getting down to our last couple of days and the packing and repacking process has begun. The goal is to get each the 8 checked bags as close to 50 pounds each without going over - sort of like The Price is Right. You go over and you pay dearly for it. The living room has become packing central. Joyce is in command and keeps asking when I'll have my stuff ready to be packed. I say "soon". This of course is still optimistic of me at this point, as I'm easily distracted as every time I turn around I see something else I need to do, and head off in a different direction.

Got the cell phones sort of figured out. I'm going to the ATT GoPhone prepaid plan. While the rate is not real good, it does keep my number and I actually can use the phone and the credit I purchased. Had to go the the $100 level to get credit that lasted longer than the trip will. It should serve us well, particularly after we return. This way I'll still have my number when I get back.

Me got a chance to meet with Karen Z a couple days ago - our guest blogger. She just returned from 6 weeks in Kenya and had the stories to tell. While there were many bumps in the road for her, both literally and figuratively, we are even more excited to get on with it. Found out significantly more about where we will stay. Briefly - there is water if they remember to turn it on after filling the water tower tank. But "don't drink the water" applies. The village does not have municipal power, but the children's home fires up a generator for about an hour a day. Internet - what's that?

So it looks like getting to the Internet will probably be less frequently then we would like, so the blog may bot be updated as often as me would have liked. Out backup plan to write the messages in word and quickly upload when we do have connections, them may not be possible as the hour a day of power will not keep the laptops running very long.

We still are not sure how to get from Nairobi, where we fly into to Kisumu, our destination for the first couple of days. Many possibilities, but figuring it out from 9000 miles, 9 hour time difference, marginal or non-existent web sites, and conflicting info is not a cake walk. I'll let you know how it works out.

Time to go work on getting the car ready to pass off during our trip. Then I'll get right on that packing thing...

Over and out,

Paul