Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay between blog entries. I actually spent an hour describing the second half of our trip to Scotland including pictures and all (!) but the hostel computer decided that after hitting “post blog-entry”, I actually meant “delete blog entry irretrievably”. And so, alas, I write this next entry from Tanzania…
To sum it up, the second half of the Scotland trip was filled with family visits, and trying not to spread what we will now label “the California-summer-death-upper-respiratory virus” that has spread from Lynn, to Julie, to Danny, further. We left Edinburgh after renting a car and headed up to Dundee, where we did 4 relative visits in 2 days (read as- 84 cups of tea between us in 2 days). After the final cup of tea, we drove across the River Tay to St. Andrews which is famous for two things- golf and the university where Mary and Roger met (thus an entire town which can be blamed for creating Lynn, Clare and Julie). Danny chilled at the Museum of Golf, and then we walked around the cathedral and castle before having a very good fish supper (fish and chips), irn bru and an early bed.
Our last day in Scotland was spent driving through to Glasgow via Stirling, the home of Stirling Castle and the Wallace Monument. After checking out the Wallace Monument, including the stunning views over Old Stirling Bridge where the English army were defeated by a clever tactical move led by William Wallace in the 1290’s (a common theme in any Scottish history- “here is the site where we fought/killed/made-fun-of/embarrassed the English”- but always fun to hear about, nonetheless…).
So, we said goodbye to Scotland on Wednesday morning and arrived at Kilimanjaro airport in Tanzania 12 hours later. A classic introduction to Africa began with our inability to find our ride to Moshi amongst the 50 or so touts, taxi-drivers and legitimate drivers at the arrival hall in the airport. Kudos to Danny for finding a little sign, held by a little guy reading “Todd, pax 2”, which we clearly should have recognized as being for us…
And so, we are here. In Africa. In a crazy little cybercafé with slow internet. Weather is nice. Overcast. Not too hot. The climb up Kili begins tomorrow and seems to be looming over us both psychologically, and literally (it’s 19000ft height is impressive from our current position at it’s base). My friends Juli and Todd join us this evening, and then we are off tomorrow morning. So, no blogging for the next week- but will be in touch again on the flip side. Hope you are all well. Lynn
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Sounds like you guys are having a great time. Maybe I'll send you some tea :-) Good luck up the little hill...I look forward to hearing all about it.
Cappy 311 is playing at the bowl right now...wish we could've gone...although I would guess that Scotland/Africa are just a bit cooler...
Keep up with the blog Danny and Lynn. You are both awesome writers! Amanda and I are super jealous..., but we are planning on visiting you guys in Africa soon.
I hope you guys are well and survived your trip up the mountian. (you won't be reading this until after) Best of luck. I wish I was there to share one of the 84 cups of tea with you both and congratulate you on such a wonderful adventure. Can't wait to hear more!
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