After a mostly sleepless night, I've made it to the airport - according to Susan, who's been on a couple of these trips before, I've just passed the biggest, most important hurdle. I'm thinking the upcoming ~11 hr flight for leg 2 of the journey will be the biggest hurdle in the next however many hours until we touch down in Addis. But thankfully I have some little sleeping pills which should help out :o)
Hopefully I have everything I'll need. My checked bag was 5 lbs overweight, so I'm now carrying at least 50 in my rollerboard carry-on I'm guessing. I had to transfer over 2 of the clinical microbiology text books to have my checked bag meet the requirements. In any case, I'm loaded down like never before for my carry-on luggage!
I'm excited to be meeting my fellow traveller, Debbie, at LAX. Then we connect with Joan in Frankfurt for the last leg. I said my somewhat tearful goodbye Elliott early this morning - I miss him already. So on with the adventure, then!
This is probably the last post from this side - next one will most likely be from Addis tomorrow if I can manage to log on before crashing for the night.
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