Up early!! I drug my (now) 135 pounds of luggage down to Paddington Station at 7:00 am and got onto the Heathrow Express. After repacking everything, I again JUST made the luggage allowances. I boarded Kenyan Airlines and began the second major leg of my urney. Fortunately, I flew during the day and was able to watch the earth below. First the English Channel, then the northern shores of France, over Paris, to Mediterranean coastline, down the Italian coastline, across Sicily ad Malta, then a stretch across the Mediterranean Sea to the coast of Tunisia. Finally, FOUR hours of sand as we crossed the great Sahara Desert. The sun had set just shortly before landing in Nairobi, arriving in the dark at about 8:45 pm (Nairobi is at the equator so it gets 12 hours
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