Travels- Summer 2010

So here we are, on the eve of the inaugural trip of "Jo's Travel Diaries", and it occurred to me that you might actually like to know where I'm going.

Well, folks, I told you it was a big one.

In just a couple of days, my friend Dave and I are going to Africa, with a couple days in Europe on either side. A dear friend of mine, Father Kamanzi, is the Superior General of his order, the Apostles of Jesus (AJs), in Nairobi, Kenya; he has been asking me to come and see him for years now, so I finally just bought a ticket and said "Here I come, ready or not!"

Here's the basic itinerary:

• Fly into Amsterdam.
  
• Spend 2 nights there. ('Cause why not, right? We'd be flying through there anyway!)
• Fly to Nairobi, Kenya.
• Spend a week in Nairobi visiting the various ministries operated by the AJs, such as AIDS clinics, schools (kindergarten to secondary ed), and other outreach sites in the various slums of Nairobi, as well as experiencing East African culture.
• Travel by car to Tanzania.
• Spend a week in Arusha and Moshi, visiting a secondary school, the AJ's junior seminary (at the foot of Kilimanjaro!), Tanzanite mines, and one of the National Parks (the Serengeti? who knows!).
• Travel back to Nairobi and fly back to Amsterdam.
• Pick up rental car.
• In 4 days, visit Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and Germany.
• Fly home from Amsterdam.

We'll be gone for 23 days.

This is going to be epic.