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12/07/2005 23:16 +0200 GMT

Prep for Livingstone

After a nice meal, Erin, Katy, Nichole, Michelle, OOZ, Stew-Dog, Downing, Mike, Beth and I had a loud good time at Premuni's. Erin was very kind to give Mike and Beth a short ride home to the Lima Garden's Guesthouse, only for me to learn later that a bit of metal must have fatigued a bit too much on the ride there. Erin was graceful about it, and I was guilt-ridden.

Then I went home and slept all right, although the alarm on the phone didn't ring. I must have set it incorrectly.

Up around 5:30, I packed not only for Livingstone, but to have my belongings out of the way of Nem Chem, a company whose people are going to spray the Stringer's home today, with some undoubtedly illegal insecticide (were this the United States). I was out of the house, and made it straight to the Inter-city bus station in Lusaka. To the Enquiries center, from which I was directed to a green shelter near the entrance to the terminal. At the CR counter, I purchased tickets for Aggie, Michelle, Stewart, Eva, and myself. 70 pin (K70,000 = < $20 USD) each, one way, for first class seats. I'm told there are nine such seats on these buses, and three were already booked, so I left with one remaining.