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Heere, H.
1990
November 16 Kenya Airways ("Pride of Africa") - some aerial
(continued) views of the Rift Valley, Ngong Hills and Nairobi
National Park. Get to the Kenya Customs Office -
the guy is way up in a booth, I look up at him
- Day "Good afternoon Sir." He says "This VISA
is expired," Some discussion, then I passed
through w/ a VISA good for one week. Off to the Hotel
Boulevard, where Bob talks us into a room, even
tho the place is "full" - then to a fine dinner at an
Indian restaurant Mike McRae recommended.
November 17 Breakfast buffet in the hotel (I try for small portions,
having learned via the scales at Mitchell's house that
I've dropped 10-15 lbs. on this trip), then to British
airways where a nice, efficient person in outrageous
dreadlocks looked us over tonight's flight to SFO via
London, but sends us to the nearby Pan Am office
for their endorsement - no problem, and now we skip
all those continental stops and LA, just a layover in
London then on direct to SFO - we should actually
get here 3 hrs. earlier than our earlier itinerary?
Off to visit an Indian friend of Bob's, then
shopping, lunch, more shopping, then a last
shower at the Boulevard. We will dine here on
pepper steaks and Kenyan papaya wine, then off
to the airport. Since we now run no risk of the
checked baggage sitting in the sun, I packed the
live animals there and won't have the considerable