Travelling in Style

I am safely in Arusha, Tanzania. Here is a brief list of the events of the last 2 days:

1) I survived the infamous Lagos airport-twice
2) Through some mixup during the long, painful adventure of booking my Kenya Airways flight from Lagos to Nairobi, I bought a first-class ticket. So I sat in the Lounge area until boarding, then had my very first first-class flight. I had a glass of champagne just because I could.
3) I avoided getting scammed by the crooks working the Kenya-Tanzanian border pretending to be "officials." The Irish girl next to me on the bus apparently lost $50 to them. That's my reward for never trusting anyone.
4) Due to nausea from travel and/or unavailable meals, I have survived for 2 days off of diet coke and british-style "digestive" crackers. Nasty.
5) I sat around the night before last watching BBC with a bunch of ex-pats who were much more concerned with the baseball playoffs than the Wall Street crash.
6) I finally got to read a newspaper and found out that Haile Gebrasallasie (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) just broke his own world record at the Berlin Marathon. Awesome.
7) I had to have a friend tell me via email that Lance is coming back. That's how out of touch I am.

I will write once I get off the mountain!