Weighing in on everything from avocados to Zimbabwe

Weighing in on everything from avocados to Zimbabwe

America to Zim: Day 1


posted by Leila Z. on

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I'm only half sure of what day it is -- but I am 100% sure of where I am. Zimbabwe, at long last! Fradreck Mujuru and his son Kudzi picked me up tonight from the airport and took me to Fradreck's place about 15km from the airport. I'm snugly ensconsed in a little room here, with bed/blankets/pillow/mosquito net -- none of which I was sure would be available. An insistent rain is pattering on the to roof, and faint sounds of mbira drift in, too. I feel pretty good despite the 24+ hour journey -- fueled mainly be adrenaline and Coca-Cola/Coke Zero (which they kept serving on the plane) -- and the main casualties seem to be my absurdly swollen feet. I only slept a couple of hours on the plane, but it has worked well so that I can fall asleep now.


A couple of highlights for now:

*Seeing an enormous thunder and lightning storm on the horizon (over Sudan?) from 35,000 feet.

*Seeing many small fires -- but whether cookfires or fires from the lightning, I don't know.

*Entering Zimbabwe (surprisingly easy) under the framed sour puss of Robert Mugabe (who they refer to simply as "The Old Man", whose picture was hung prominently at several locations at the airport.

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