Travel note

Saturday night, late, we fly to Addis Ababa, then on to Djibouti on Wednesday. The Internet situation in both places is iffy. So blog readers may not hear from us for a while. We're not sure. But we arrive in Bangkok February 29, and there Internet is good. If this routing---west to Africa, then back east to Southeast Asia---seems screwy, yep, we know. But there are reasons for this that are too boring to explain. Accept that we are not exactly crazy.