After nine-plus days in Addis Ababa and Ziway, Ethiopia, we are now off to Djibouti. That is, if they ever call our flight. We seem to be in the right place; Kenya Airways Flight 402 does not.

It’s been an incredible, enlightening and often fun journey. Just the bullet points in my notebook fill four pages, so let this be a warning re: future blog posts. My thumbs are certainly not up to the task. However, to give you a little taste, here are are a few of the bullets:

• multiple macchiatos
• Haile Selassie Palace/Ethnological Museum
• John F. Kennedy Library at Addis Ababa University
• goats, donkeys, cattle and dogs on the highway to Ziway
• Jenny making injera
• getting stuck in the bajaj
• watching men winnow tef with pitchforks and getting tef in our hair
• Lucy vs The Baboons
• polyglot dinner (English, Amharic, French, Spanish, Arabic)
• injera!

I hope we will eventually have the words and photos to bring our experiences to life.

In the meantime, I’d be happy with a Djibouti call.