GOBBLE GOBBLE!! (OT, of course)

Happiest of Turkeydays to you all!! Tomorrow at 8am, I'm catching a ride to
the 'beach', the corrput and inefficient riverside port of Kinshasa. Then on
to a ferryboat on across the Congo river (just above the pull of some
unrunnable rapids....hope the motor doesn't conk out) and into
Congo/Brazzaville. Once through their corrupt and inefficient customs,
I'll spend the day resting, relaxing and feeling 'first worldly' in what a
magazine last year rated as the "worst city on Earth to live in or visit".
Then tomorrow night, I board some rickety old propjob for the 1 hour flight
to the coast, to the 'resort' town of Pointe Noir, home of several racial
massacres and rebel standoffs in the past 10 years. After a few days sunning
and funning, it's back to Brazzaville, then back across the river and back
here to Kinshasa on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to this, maybe I'll
get a 'Life in Congo' out of it.

Vacations just aren't what they used to be, eh? Hope you all have a fun and
foodfilling holiday. Be safe, terrorize some fish.

--Myron