Flight 42 : Debra Tabor, Ethiopia to Kigali, Rwanda

Date: Monday December 22, 2008

Departure:Noon

Aircraft: Flight Club Goma Q-400

Altitude, 13,000 feet

Routing: South to Lake Victoria and then southwest into Kigali - over some of the most fetile farmlands on the entire planet.

Miles: 890 miles

Arrival Stats: Clear and calm, 15:12 PM or 273 mph, 3.25 hours total flight time.

Notes: Ethiopian highlands, Uganda's Rift Valley, scenic lakes and beautiful northern Rwanda - some of my most favorite real-world places! I'll be happy to spend Christmas right here .....

Flight 41: Sharm el Sheik to Debra Tabor via Port Sudan

Date: Friday December 19, 2008

Departure: 06:25 AM

As the real world outside is icy and frozen, my goal now is to make it into the warm climates of Central Africa for Christmas. After a few days here, I depart Sharm el Sheik, Egypt just after dawn on Friday morning In the deault, house-color Dash-8, and head down the Red Sea to Eritrea and Ethiopia. I stop for a quick "gas-and-go" in Port Sudan, no even on the ground 30 minutes.

Final stop this AM, just over 1,000 miles for the day is Debra Tabor in central Ethiopia - this area will also be featured next year on http://www.toomuchfs.com/.

Total time today 4.7 hours, average 212 mph.