http://kijabe.org/barry/ en-us 2003-12-24T20:27:52-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000028.html .. in time for Christmas eve! -the end.... Barry 2003-12-24T20:27:52-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000027.html I need to catch my flight home this evening, but I wanted to visit Masai territory (in western Kenya) today, to see how mission work is going there. I had an invitation from the Russell and Johnson families of Master's... Barry 2003-12-23T19:58:18-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000026.html ..if you don't have time for game reserve tours or other tourist attractions: 1. Make Christmas music at the Streit's house: 2. Study the aerial root system of the climbing split-leaf plant: 3. Make sure you have all your stuff... Barry 2003-12-22T19:28:31-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000025.html Our neighbor on the Khartoum airport parking ramp was a Red Cross airplane, which (like ours) will be used to bring relief to victims of conflict in Sudan's war zones. The honest answer to why the Red Cross insignia is... Barry 2003-12-21T18:41:46-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000024.html I am delighted beyond words to be able to make this post from Khartoum, a stop which we had not originally planned. Relations between the govt. of Sudan and western relief agencys are much improved. For a Christmas gift to... Barry 2003-12-20T14:41:14-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000023.html (Posted Saturday evening from Khartoum because I was unable to find internet access from Iraklion on Fri. evening.) We arranged refueling in Valencia this morning with relatively few delays. The Caravan's wing was too high for the fuel truck's ladder,... Barry 2003-12-20T13:57:58-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000022.html After a short night of sleep in Santa Maria, we took a walk down the street from our hotel to have a look around. House have white stucco walls and red tile roofs in a Mediterranean style. Roads and sidewalks... Barry 2003-12-18T19:54:09-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000021.html At Halifax this morning we had below-freezing temperatures and low clouds, a combination that mitigated against our departure, even though above the cloud layer there were clear skies and warmer temperatures due to a warm-front inversion. We dared not risk... Barry 2003-12-18T07:20:41-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000020.html The weather in Bangor this morning was beautiful - but the ramp on which our plane was parked was buried in snow. It took the plow-trucks most of the morning to dig it out. From our weather briefing it was... Barry 2003-12-16T16:27:23-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000019.html It's snowing today here in Maine. This is the same storm that folks in PA and NJ had yesterday. While talking on the cell phone to Jim Streit in Nairobi... ...Chad took a snowball hit in the back. Jim said... Barry 2003-12-15T11:35:56-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000018.html This will be just a photo album with a few remarks. We had a free day and a rental car, so we headed for the coast at Bar Harbor (locally known as Bah Hahbah). The guys from Kenya have noted... Barry 2003-12-13T15:47:03-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000017.html The crew at Telford made great progress today with the tank installation. They removed the seats and built a plywood foundation on the cabin floor... ...and installed the tanks with strong tiedowns, and with the valves and pumps that we'll... Barry 2003-12-12T17:57:15-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000015.html The departure route from Morristown featured, briefly, a rainbow, and a view of the New York City metropolitan area. For the guys from Kenya, this (the city) was quite a change of scenery. The weather in the northeast US... Barry 2003-12-11T21:11:15-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000014.html ..was not originally on our itinerary. Out of Lancaster, our flight planned destination was the Essex County airport at Caldwell, NJ, which is convenient to Mike's folks' place. Chad had the left seat, and flew an instrument approach procedure to... Barry 2003-12-11T20:35:51-05:00 http://kijabe.org/barry/archives/000013.html Among those here at the Lancaster Airport this morning to see us off were our pastor, Sam Thomas, my parents, Frank & Lydia King, and my sister Edna and her husband Dwight Hershberger, who was a former AIM-AIR pilot and... Barry 2003-12-11T20:03:36-05:00