Africabeat

On July 11, after two-and-a half months of roaming around
Africa for the third time, I flew (via Lilongwe, Addis Ababa and Khartoum) from Lusaka to
Cairo.  48 hours later I was on my way to JFK (via Rome and Milan).  I spent 18 hours in the Tri-state Area.  Then I was off to
Seattle to meet my favorite boy for the first time.  At 6am on July 21st, I flew to San Francisco for
24 hours and caught a showing of Batman: The Dark Knight,
my third film in a real movie theatre in two years.  Last night (twelve
days after taking off from Lusaka, plus or minus whatever
happens when you cross the international date line), I arrived in
Beijing.

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I miss this blog more than you can imagine, but regular internet
access can be hard to come by when you’re an international jet-setter
without the international jet-setter’s company
Blackberry with international data roaming.

So in lieu of blogging, I’ve been doing it the old-fashioned way:

That’s six kilos of people, places and thought.  I never realized how much
cheaper and portable (and lighter!) thought has become since the internet happened.
Needless to say, I’ll be spending the next year working on making some
of this digital before I plot my next escape.