It's Saturday night here in Libreville, the capital of
Gabon. Tomorrow we'll shoot in the city
market before catching a flight to Port Gentil and then will drive well into the rain forest,
where we will be on safari for the next 6 days.
We will report in as much as possible, leading up to our (hopefully)
climactic encounter with a group of Western Lowland Gorillas. Stay tuned!
Friday, August 3, 2018
Gabon
Just reached Gabon, through a connection in Paris. All told, 25 hours of travel. But our record is 43 hours once coming back
from India, and 42 hours returning from South Africa - visiting 7 airports in 5
countries: Cape Town, S.A. to Johannesburg, S.A. to an unscheduled stop in Entebbe,
Uganda to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Frankfurt, Germany to Washington D.C. and
back to Chicago. You do feel like
staying put for a while after a marathon like that!
