I have one question for you.... Where...... Is my luggage?
If you ever plan to take Afriqiyah airlines all I can tell you is plan on spending at least as many hours waiting in line for your flight as you do on your flight and pack necessities in your carry on bag. As they have no self check in service I started the day off with three hours in line- an experience that was duplicated in tripoli on my layover. Tripoli airport is not among my list of favorites not only because they failed to get our luggage on the flight and possibly sent all our luggage to the other end of the continent - but because the bathrooms use spray hoses instead of toilet paper- a new definition of ecofriendly.
Anyways, after waiting in line for another two hours I was told my luggage should arrive on Sunday night.....
However I made it to my hotel, and Pius the program representative is going to take me to a festival tomorrow- so all in all I am still thrilled to he here.
Ok I have been up way too long and this is a really long text message so... Goodnight!!!!

Hello all! Arrived in London about 2 hours ago. It's raining -who's surprised?- and I am here overnight because I had to switch airports to fly to Accra tomorrow. Gatwick is pretty quiet - but I did manage to find some uk Indian food out in the rain to eat before I retire ( nothing can keep me from that haha)
Anyways so far so good- so far traveling solo is good fun- though things might be entirely more chaotic once I hit Africa. We shall see!
Signing off--;)

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about to go....!

 So today I have tried to start packing (and by that I mean literally putting things into my suitcase/backpack thing because I feel like I have been "packing" all month for this!) and my suitcase is seeming smaller and smaller in light of the five months that I plan on living out of it----- like where do I fit my eyelash curler?:) I  personally think that one should be included on the Swiss army knife that I bought, but no such luck.  I guess that I need  the "high maintenance knife" rather than the one labeled "camper"  that I bought. 

Anyways, I am leaving really soon- Thursday to be exact.  And this time next week I will be looking back at you the opposite way over the Atlantic Ocean from Ghana. 

I made some changes to the itinerary at the bottom of the page, and it is still subject to change thanks to British Airways, but it is pretty much as final as it will ever be. 

The pictures I posted are of the most important thing that I am  packing methinks- thanks to the forethought and generosity of my mother.  It is called a "Freshette" (emphasis on the "ette"). This is a personal device for women to make emergent/public restroom situations ( or lack thereof) easier. I will leave it to you to infer from the photos how to use it, or to google it.  It is up in the air whether or not this is  actually worth packing, though my mother seems convinced that this is  entirely  useful and necessary.  Feel free to post your thoughts :)

 Ok well, the posts will be coming more frequently now, as I am actually now leaving.  I am  getting really excited, but will miss you all, so please please comment on  here or send me an email/post!

more to come....

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 currently on the phone on hold with Brittish airways.......

 so frustrating!!!!

 I am so close though to buying my round the world ticket- which will mean my trip is really happening--

which is a little scary but very exciting!

 here we go.......!

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So apparently when I set up my blog so that certain people would automatically get an email every time I posted, people WERE emailed, but the website address was not included in the email, which is dumb. Anyways- for future reference, the address is: Http://rebeccasworldadventure.blogspot.com/ This way you can see the acual blog, not just the text! Cool Xoxox ( see below: me confused by modern technology)



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