Heading to Kinshasa Pt. 3

So Roughly 48 hours to departure to West Africa...

Given the daily level of chaos life brings our way, this trip has really not been front and center on my plate until today when my wife announced "anything I need to get for your trip, because I am not available tomorrow and you leave Wednesday". Holy crap - of course there are about 50 things I need...though I can't think of any was my summarized reply - and then I remembered: Peanut butter, the universal food for a picky traveler. This was met with a face that can only be interpreted as a "you are traveling to africa to get our daughter, visit several orphanages, assit with charitable work...and all you are concerned about is peanut butter?!?!!?" look. What is interesting, is she was exactly right :-)

On a more serious note - Kinshasa has one of the highest costs of living in the world...a harsh juxtaposition to the crushing poverty there - because literally everything but beer is imported. By way of example, eating out at the equivelent of Pizza Hutt is about $25/per person (without the beer). Second, the food is, well, interesting on balance when eating "local" - one of the favorites is monkey, so I do like to travel with some type of "you want me to eat what?" alternative. Peanut butter lives up to the task nicely :-)

Days to departure: 2
Number of bags to carry: 5
Number of changes since last post: 1 - by the airline

Next update on the way....