Thursday, April 16th<\/p>\n
The fun began when Dr. Mark Guy and I arrived at Dulles International Airport early Tuesday morning to discover that our flight had been delayed nearly three hours. This meant we would be spending a day in Dubai, and leaving Thursday morning for Entebbe, Uganda. It occurred to me I had been praying all week for more time to finish work I brought with me and to prepare for the beginning of the addictions conference on Friday. I guess God heard me!<\/p>\n
If you took the set from The Jetsons,<\/em>\u00a0pasted it into the Waterfront Mall, multiplied by 1,000, then dropped the whole thing into the middle of the desert, you’d have Dubai. Our flight attendant said it was a great place to go clubbing. (Isn’t this a Muslim country??) <\/em>Mark and I both being middle-aged Christian nerds, we elected a more sedate option: lunch, followed by nap, some planning for the conference, dinner, conversation, prayer, and bed.<\/p>\n Woke up today feeling very rested (maybe this layover wasn’t a bad idea after all), made the plane in plenty of time. This, however, means we will be arriving in Kampala mid-afternoon, and leave immediately for Soroti, a rugged seven-hour drive. I am hoping Jay made it in from Brussels last night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday, April 16th The fun began when Dr. Mark Guy and I arrived at Dulles International Airport early Tuesday morning to discover that our flight had been delayed nearly three hours. This meant we would be spending a day in Dubai, and leaving Thursday morning for Entebbe, Uganda. It occurred to me I had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pilgrim-africa-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rrkF-jb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/bishopsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}