We made it to Africa! 🌍

Ethiopian Airlines fed us so well across the time zones… I feel like we covered all three meals in each! And then ate again upon arrival at our hotel in Nairobi! The children filling the plane were magnificent, wandering up and down the aisles to expend their energy, one little girl handing me a page from a magazine displaying pretty colors of lipstick & telling me I should buy them.

I couldn’t see much of the sunrise over Addis from my west side aisle seat but the airport was buzzing with all kinds of people from everywhere, wearing so many types of clothing and speaking so many languages, as we made our connection into Nairobi.

After our respite here our early morning flight will take us to our Kenyan base.

I have Beryl Markham, female pilot who was the first to make a nonstop transatlantic solo flight east to west. She grew up in Kenya and was also an accomplished horse trainer. A long time ago I read her autobiography West with the Night and more recently my book club read Circling the Sun, a biography of her. Both books contain so much description of Africa’s natural beauty, history, people, and I am excited to experience it for myself.