July 9, 2011-The First Day of Their Travels

This year's team (Patty Allen, Rick & Cheryl Chipman & April Taggs) are currently "in the air" in route to Detroit, MI. From there they will board a flight this evening headed for Amsterdam. Planned arrival in Amsteram is tomorrow morning (Sunday) at 8:00am. They will then board yet another flight for Tanzania. A stop in Kilimanjaro & then arriving in Dar Es Salaam, TZ around 9:45pm Sunday evening. (Just for your information, Tanzania at this time of year is 8 hours later than us).  As far as we know there have been no glitches getting them out of Omaha (no news is good news). They will have business to take care of in Dar Es Salaam such as visiting Jason Mtokoma at the International Medical Technological University & picking up the autoclave for the clinic (hopefully) but as we all know, the best laid plans of men & mice (and especially while in TZ) do not always work out accordingly. You have to "go with the flow". We were told that the vehicle this year is a NOAH (a luxury vehicle??) so they (Jason & Pr Wallace) that all the people, plus luggage would not fit with the autoclave. My thoughts were "Noah & His Ark" were able to get his family & 2 of each animal into it, so possible it would be a bigger vehicle than they think. Rick has been in a NOAH last year & it is reported that it is a "mini-van"....so, one only really knows what the situation is, once they arrive.