Just so you know, I’m going to try to post some pictures up here, but I’m running into some roadblocks with getting my camera recognized by the computes here in the PC office. Apparently, drivers for my camera aren’t installed, and I can’t install any myself, so what I’m going to need to do is back up the photos to my backup device (the Jobo Giga Mini, see my packing list), which is nothing more than a portable hard drive, and then connect that up to this computer. While it’s understandable that this system can’t recognize a particular kind of digital camera, it should definitely be able to recognize an external USB hard drive. So, here’s hoping.

Okay, so I’ve been in The Gambia now since Thursday night. The flight here was LONG – all in all, about 27 hours… I think. It was definitely more than a day. I didn’t sleep much Wednesday night on the plane, for whatever reason, but we touched down in Brussels sometime on Thursday morning. We waited for a little bit, then got onto a Brussels-based airliner down to Banjul, via Dakar. Dakar was an interesting welcoming-in to West Africa, ’cause after we landed – they were supposed to take about 45 minutes to do a headcount and luggage check, then we were supposed to be back in the air. it’s only about 30 minutes flight from Dakar to Banjul. Except that after we landed, another plane landed, and their front landing gear failed, and the nose of the plane skidded along the tarmac to a stop on the runway. At least, that’s the story we were told. Everyone was okay from that “crash,” but it tied up the runway for hours. Really problematic. So we had to wait about 3 hours to get back in the air while they fixed the situation. whoopee! didn’t get into Banjul until about 7:30, 8:00 PM. By then, all of us were so grimey and tired and sick of travelling… we were a pretty grim crew at that point.

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