Tomorrow We Leave

Evening before last Carolyn and I had dinner in Harvard Square with my god daughter, Marianne Cook. Marianne is a remarkable young woman, self-assured and highly accomplished for one so young. Upon graduating from Harvard in 2002, she went to Oman for a year to work as a counselor in a school for English-speaking children. We had a leisurely dinner, looked through her Oman scrapbook and a yearbook of the school where she worked, and got to meet her boyfriend, Matt.

We leave tomorrow! Our flight, on KLM (Royal Dutch Airline), is scheduled to depart at 7:15 PM, barring snow delays. We are ready to go; we could leave today if we had to. Carolyn's sister, Diana, is taking us to Alewife Station, at the end of the Red Line of the Boston Subway system. From there it's an easy ride with only one change, to the new Silver Line, which will deposit us right at the entrance of our airline terminal. We fly from Boston to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Kuwait City, and Kuwait City to Muscat, the capitol of Oman. We are well prepared for our eighteen hours of traveling with books and iPods and comfortable clothing. rpk