June 1, 2011
We departed DC about 12 noon and arrived at
Addis Ababa 12 hours later at around 8 AM local time.
Flight was long and boring.
No one to talk with and nothing to read.
Had inadvertently left the book
brought along to read at Dulles airport. Couldn’t sleep either, so arrived in Ethiopian tired, irritable, and sleepy.
Passed through the
Addis Ababa airport successfully and departed for
Chad at approximately 10AM.
Flew over some of the most forbidding country I’ve ever seen.
Everything was brown, no green, desert (maybe dry savannah) everywhere with thatched or tinned roofed huts here and there.
When the sun caught the tin roofs at a certain angle they looked like little diamonds against the sandy brown background.
Arrived at N’Djamena at 12:30 PM and the first thing I noticed was the heat, it was stifling. Sweat it was that introduced me to Chad, sweat that ran into my eyes, drops of sweat rolling down my sides and the smell of someone too long without a bath (me). It was an introduction to things to come. I followed NGO personnel thru customs with no problems. A young Chadian walked up to me dressed
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