Jambo, pole-pole My adventures on Mt. Kilimanjaro February, 2008 Mt. Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania, which is in east Africa just south of the equator. To get there requires a lot of flying time. I left Louisville at 2:30pm, flew to Detroit where I met up with Dave and then boarded a flight to Amsterdam. We arrived in Amsterdam the next morning and after a 3 hour layover, boarded a KLM fight for Kilimanjaro International. This leg took 8 hours, 10 on the clock, as we were still heading east. We flew directly over the Sahara and as I had a window seat, I was amazed at the size of it. For nearly 4 hours we passed over the desert and you could see the outlines of sand dunes, even from almost 40,000 feet. We arrived at
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