Hello everyone! This is going to be my Africa trip travel blog. I'm getting it started a bit into the trip but will be trying to keep it updated when I get internet time.
Day 1 (Sat 2/9/09) Kansas City to London
I packed up for the trip and Prem gave me a ride to the airport. KC to Philly and then on to London overnight.
Day 2 (Sun 2/10/08) London
Yay! Wonderful jet-lag again. Arrived in good old London Gatwick. Had a funny conversation with a woman from Omaha that lived in London while getting my coffee before the train. Topic: Obama. She was impressed that I had met him the week before. Took train to London Bridge station. I always remember this journey because it is the exact trip I took 10 years ago when I first arrived in the UK to live there for a year. Funny how your thoughts are when are sizing up a place that you have just arrived in but are going to live in for a year! Took train to London Bridge station, then, as is now becoming my tradition, walked over the Tate Modern Musuem which was just across the street from where I lived in London. They have a huge room (I talking huge -- 2 football fields or so!) that always has rotating exhibits. It is always pretty interesting. This time.... a crack running the entire length of the room! It was pretty cool... very imaginative. Give someone the hugest space to exhibit art in the world and what do they do... don't fill the space but go into the floor. Brilliant! Here's what it looked like:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/dorissalcedo/default.shtm
Then wandered around a bit killing time until my friends got home. Headed to Stratford (east London) where the Olympics will be and met up with Nikki and Rich. Nikki is one of my classmates from the LSE (London School of Economics). Great to see them and their daughter Mia. Nikki is originally from Bhurma and gave me the update... things not good at all there. She can't even take the risk to go and visit her grandma and aunties. Nice dinner and then bed.
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