Leaving tomorrow - weather dependent...

Tomorrow - Feb 4 - Donna and I are scheduled to begin our trip to Uganda!  Donna is flying out of Spokane and I'm hoping to fly out of Denver.  Denver, unfortunately for me, is getting a serious snow storm right now, and I'm getting nervous about being able to leave tomorrow.  If I don't make it, I'll hopefully join Donna a day late in Uganda.  Keep your fingers crossed for the snow to lift long enough for me to fly out tomorrow!

BIG THANKS to Jenn, my mom, Aunt Thersa, Aunt Sue, Amanda, Sylvia, Kate, and Hanna for sending school supplies to send along to Uganda!  I have a very full duffel (49 lbs exactly) full of supplies and 2 smaller carry-ones with my personal stuff and the laptop.

We have made some progress in trip planning.  We'll spend our first five days getting the school supplies safely to the schools in and around Entebbe and Kampala.  Then we'll head out on a 9-day safari with Border-less Travel (http://borderless-travel.com/).  Peter, the head of Border-less Travel, has been incredibly helpful in helping us set up our safari.  We'll hopefully get to travel to Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi, and Lake Mburo National Parks as well as raft on the Nile River from Jinja!  I'm VERY excited for all the wildlife, scenery and people. 

We hope to spend our final week in Uganda visiting Donna's friend Aggrey's school.  Aggrey's school is quite remote and has little access to internet.  We have not been able to confirm with him yet, but we hope that it will be easier once we are in Uganda. 

I'll hopefully keep the blog updated often while we are on the move, but it will depend on how frequent our access to the internet is. 

*Map of Uganda from - http://www.shoortravel.com/ugandamap.html