It's just like in the old movie "Stagecoach," where a diverse bunch piles into a horse-drawn carriage for an adventure through the Wild West.
Except we aren't heading West.
We're going East -- to Ethiopia.
Our stagecoach is actually a British Airways Airbus jet descending under a half moon to Addis Ababa, at 7,600 feet one of the highest-altitude capitals on the planet. The only thing higher than Addis Ababa at this moment is the excitement and anticipation pulsing through me and my fellow group of Seattle passengers on board Flight 6565 as the runway lights of the landing strip rush toward us.
| Continue "From distant places we answer Africa's call," Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Robert L. Jamieson's account of his plane trip to Africa
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