Merry Christmas

"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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Riverman writes:

Tomorrow, at 6 AM, I'm off on HewaBora Airways (makes Aeroflot look like
KLM) to the far NE of Congo, to Goma where the war is, where there's a
volcano waiting to be climbed, some jungle villages to be visited, and
where
I get to spend a week seeing what is rumored to be the prettiest part of
Africa. Look for the TR, especially if I get to fish Lake Kivu.


Please be careful. Looking forward to your next read.


No worries, Dave, but thank you for the concern. In reality, I'm sexing this
up a bit. We're actually being met at the airport by the British Consul and
her husband, the Senator to the Congolese government from the eastern
region, and being shuttled by VIP carriage to their guest house on the shore
of Lake Kivu. They have arranged for me to accompany a medical team from a
Missionary group into the jungle to see how their med facilities are set up
(assuming there is no unrest, which there hasn't been for weeks), and the
hike up and overnight on the volcano are somewhat standard tourist fare
between eruptions (the most recent of which was 2 years ago, and made the
news). I suspect that this will be 90% relaxation, and 10% trying to make it
sound risky. :-)

--riverman