Off to Kili

Here in Livingstone, Team Africa expanded to 10 with the arrival of Sam, Arvind, Sarah & Leshya. We took a booze cruise on the Zambezi River to celebrate (and wondered why we hadnt been doing that every night of our stay here, given the $40 pricetag inclusive of booze, dinner and cruise!).

Then this morning, Team Malawi (Mike, Leshya, Sarah, Mohammed, Nicole) left at 4am to drive the 4 hours to catch a flight in Losaka to Lilongwe where they'll have another 4 hour drive to get to their hotel...Not to be outdone in travel discomfort, Team Kili (Dan, Brent, Sam, Arvind, KC) is catching the first of several flights taking us to Tanzania this afternoon at 1:20pm. We fly to Joburg, where we have a 9 hour layover before catching a red eye to Nairobi at 12:40am and then a final flight to Kilimanjaro at 6am. We'll be in Arusha for a day, doing final preparations and shopping before we take our first steps up the mountain on the morning of the 20th.

We'll be away from internet for the next 7 days, so the next blog will be a post-Kili update. Wish us luck!!!!!