I've never been to Africa (though I have traveled extensively elsewhere) so I don't know about actual conditions on the ground, but my rule of thumb as a travel writer is that things (almost) always looks scarier from a distance than close-up. I've noticed that when traveling the folks you talk to in one country, regardless of what country, will (almost) always tell you how terrible the problems are in the country next door, why you shouldn't go there, what awful things will happen when you get there, why their country is so much better. When you get "there," you find that folks are going about daily life in a regular way. They of course tell you how terrible things are back in the country you just left. Of course there are always exceptions <:/ --Lan Sluder Belize First Magazine http://www.turq.com/belizefirst/ To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original text from your reply.
