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 * [[image:Travel_Home_Bus1.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="The only large scale agriculture I saw was close to Kampala, and included sugar cane and tea."]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Bus2.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Cold front pushing through Kampala. It was ominous and entirely awesome."]] ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Bus3.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Storm a'comin'"]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Bus4.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Nelson Mandela National Stadium, looking away from the storm."]] ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Bus5.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Looking back to the east."]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Bus6.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Stork."]] ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Bus7.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Frontal winds stirring up dust in Kampala."]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Bus9.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Thick traffic in Kampala, in this photo fairly well-behaved..."]] ||

If you're wondering what there are not any pictures from the Kampala > Amsterdam leg of the trip, it's mostly because it was dark and I was asleep in my chair.  I've never slept for so long on a plane in my life. It ruled.


 * [[image:Travel_Home_Plane1.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Early morning arrival in Amsterdam."]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Plane2.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Sunrise over the airfield."]] ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Plane3.jpg width="512" height="341"]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Plane5.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="The total trip home took about 41 hours. It mostly felt like this."]] ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Plane6.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Our plane, a Boeing 767. Notice how functional it looks in this photo."]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Plane7.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="This is how far we got before a tire exploded while we were taxi-ing.  The noice and ensuing vibration were kind of scary, and a lot of people had minor heart attacks, particularly those that had been napping."]] ||
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|| Listen here for audio between pilots and flight controllers: media type="file" key="GarageBand 20120221 2202.mp3" width="240" height="20" (Ok so I spent long hours working on editing the major intercom conversations.These are snippets of Mr.L plane from Amsterdam To JFK its a recording of Air traffic controllers talking about his flat tire. I hope you guys like it from Max :) ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Plane10.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Mr. Bob Schroeder"]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Plane11.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="I guess it wouldn't really count as an Odyssey if there weren't a few unexpected adventures."]] ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Plane12.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="I think it would have been scarier a minute or two later, if we'd actually been taking off."]] || [[image:Travel_Home_Plane13.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="Bus-ride back to the terminal."]] ||
 * media type="youtube" key="5erM8gke7nU?version=3" height="324" width="576" || [[image:Travel_Home_Plane15.jpg width="512" height="341" caption="About 5 hours later, 30 seconds before I got on the plane. How would this make you feel?"]] ||
 * [[image:Travel_Home_Plane14.jpg width="512" height="341" align="center" caption="Thank you, nice lady."]] ||