Preparing For Travel

As we prepare to travel abroad, it does not does us any good at all to see stories like this:

"NEW DELHI (AFP) - An Air India flight headed for Mumbai overshot its destination and was halfway to Goa before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said.

The high altitude nap took place approximately two weeks ago, the Times of India reported Thursday. The report, however, drew a furious denial from Air India."

Meanwhile, my wife, the Thrifty Yankee, is totally outmatched by the types of expenditures required for travel to Africa. She is reduced to looking for bargains on our malaria medicine to satisfy her sense of obligation.