Russ&Suzie

Trip Log
2008-02-24 04:33:09 (UTC)

Amsterdam to Nairobi

Uneventful trip with a number of strong impressions from
the airplane windows: the Alps in relief, Italy with
viaducts and roads, blue blue Mediterranean, coast of
Africa, Sahara and its dunes and rocks, then less definite
landscape below, especially with arriving dusk.

REading Before the Dawn by Wade and felt interesting in
view of our destination. 4.4 million years ago bipedalism
began, 2.7 million years ago tool user homo habilis, 1.7
million years, Homo ergaster, perhaps the onset of
meateating what with shorter guts, 0.3-0.4 archaic humans
(nearanderthals in Europe and Levant), a mere 0.05 million
years ago (50,000 years) modern humans arrived with
language, self-domestication, religion, and a small group
leaving Africa likely by the Gulf of Grief at the end of
the Red Sea.

Now in a very pleasant hotel in Nairobi having been met at
the airport by Hoti our guide for the whole experience.
Ten years experience and very articulate. From Arusha,
Tanzania. Now off to breakfast.




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