A New World

Africa! My first time on the continent.

In a Nairobi airport bathroom, a booming voice from behind startled me as I zipped up my pants: “Hello sir! How are you today?” The janitor smiled broadly, and went back to cleaning.

At the Entebbe airport, Norman – a contact of Siena’s who neither of us had met before – greeted me with a big hug. He had invited three of us his other friends to make the 1-hour drive from Kampala, just to say hello and welcome little old me.

My Lonely Planet travel guide tells me that Ugandans are “smiling and friendly, with an openness absent in other places – truly some of the finest folk in Africa.” I guess they did their homework.