11 December 2007 (10:27)I reached an important conclusion during my flight from Frankfurt to Abu Dhabi… flying First-Class is truly the ONLY way to fly internationally!!! After Lufthansa left my two bags in Berlin, I was treated to a random act of kindness and was upgraded from Business to First-Class for a 6-hour flight to [...]
7 April 2007 (19:47) Happy Easter Dear Family and Friends! I am absolutely radiant right now… due in large part to the sun burn across my arms and chest from a day at the beach! I am also in high spirits from the good energy of this first few days in Freetown. The mission team [...]
3 April 2007 (22:29) Dear Family and Friends: After 13.5 hours of traveling from Berlin to London to Dakar to Freetown… the 7-minute helicopter ride from the airport to downtown was refreshingly brief and particularly exciting. As I rode at the front of a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter loaded to the gunwales with 40 people and [...]