On International Travel

So, I like airports. They always seem a little disconnected from time and location. Example: I've been to the Phoenix airport, but never really been to Arizona. I don't care what time it is at Dulles because in a few excruciating hours I will be in Johannesburg, 7 time zones away. I am now in Windhoek, and all the traveling went well. There was a small baggage fiasco at Dulles, and I was required to check my carry-on. Everything turned out all right, though there is a little dent in my checking account because of it. New Years in Johannesburg was fun, especially swimming in the hotel pool on Dec. 31st.
Namibia, or what little I have seen so far, is lovely. It is sunny and in the 80's during the day, and nice and cool at night. Outside of the Windhoek city limits it seems like there is nothing but flat scrub land then mountains; no ugly suburbs to clutter things up. No pictures yet, though I will post some as soon as that becomes possible (I have to install some software on Carmen's computer). The other volunteers are all great, and we seem to be getting along just fine so far.
When I went to Austria last year I was somehow unaffected by jetlag. Slightly different this time. I fell asleep at 10:30 last night, then woke up at 2:30am. I couldn't fall back asleep, but neither could some other volunteers, so we just hung out watching weird animal documentaries. The US to Namibia dollar exchange rate is basically 10:1. This is good news. And items only cost maybe 3 times as much in dollars. Very good news.