I’ve been awake for nearly 48 hours and I’m about to shower and then collapse gratefully into bed. The plan was to sleep tonight in Managua in Nicaragua but I have only made it as far as Houston, Texas. I flew Sydney to Los Angeles with Qantas to connect with Continental flights from LA to Houston and then Houston to Managua. Unfortunately the Continental flight was delayed by five hours, leaving me stranded. At least they have put me up in the very comfortable Holiday Inn and given me meal vouchers, though I don’t know whether my bag is in Houston or has gone on to Managua without me, or is in fact still in LA where I last dropped it after clearing US Customs.
The best thing I can say about today is that I watched some cool movies (Swedish movie As It Is In Heaven was particularly good), read my book (On Beauty by Zadie Smith), and met some interesting people. There was Welsh Jim on his way to Columbia to do strategic communications for a development and inter-governmental conference. There was Kiwi Jim, a geologist from New Zealand who works on geothermal electricity projects using volcanoes in NZ, Indonesia, Nicaragua (he’ll be on the same flight as me tomorrow). And there was a lady from Houston who had spend 17 years working on a schools programme with ‘at risk’ kids.
Blogging has been sporadic while I’ve been on holidays in Australia, mainly because I couldn’t directly access the internet from this machine. I’m hoping it will be better now but I’ll be busy so I can’t promise. The next week is a coffee story in Nicaragua, then it’s on to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Cambodia, before back to London. Then I think I deserve a rest.
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