The Plan!

Thursday:
A very kind cou­ple from Overland Park Baptist Temple is going to pick me up and drive me to Kansas City, where I’ll stay at a hotel also pro­vided by OPBT.

Friday:
I shall rent a car and do my last-minute USA shop­ping. Shoes, books, etc. I’m also going to get a hair­cut, because I for­got to sched­ule one for Wednesday.

Saturday:
Kristin, Katherine, and I shall spend the day eat­ing cucum­ber sand­wiches, imbib­ing tea, and watch­ing movies. Robin Hood, Doctor Who, per­haps Sense and Sensibility? This is unknown.

Sunday:
I shall fly from Kansas City to Miami, Florida. I was sup­posed to go straight from Miami to Bolivia, but nay! The air­line, Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, sud­denly decided to can­cel Sunday’s flight and bump every­one to Monday. So, I shall spend Sunday night with another very kind fam­ily, the O’Rears of Lamp International.

Monday:
Fly from Miami to Panama for a brief stop and exchange of passengers.

Tuesday:
Just past mid­night, fly from Panama to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Short lay­over in Santa Cruz and a shift over to a dif­fer­ent plane. Hopefully all 7 pieces of lug­gage plus cat will make the tran­si­tion smoothly. Fly from Santa Cruz to Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Tuesday morn­ing:
Arrive in Cochabamba and be greeted by muchly-missed fam­ily (this will involve get­ting knocked down and tram­pled upon by my youngest sib­lings, nat­u­rally). Explore the envi­ron­ment. Breathe in as much oxy­gen as is avail­able in the Very High Valley of Cochabamba. Get hit with a water bal­loon, as it will be the last day of Carnivale.

Wednesday:
Explore!

Thursday:
Explore!

Friday:
Start writing.