Yes... All of us already arrived at Moshi... Ok, still missing 1 Kenyan, 2 Egyptians and 1 Dutch (in this occasion you don't say he is living in Portugal)... If this was expected for the first 3, the Dutch is still showing his new shiny PINK passport in the Embassies of Kenya and Tanzania in Paris (which country in world except Holland would give pink passports to their citizens?). But, Machiel will probably tell you the story later in the day...
Anyway, everything is starting to move forward... Today, we will have a general meeting in order to prepare together the detailed plan of observations (and alternative plans) and to decide if we depart tomorrow morning or if we stay one more day (basically, this will depend of the latest hour to start the climbing safely). For myself (Rui), I was just revisiting Moshi (it is indeed a very nice city, full of trees and nice people) after a great trip of 7h by 4-wheel drive from Dar es Salaam. The only problem is that I still could not see again the Kili... Clouds and clouds... In a way, this is nice... Probably is better to not know what we will have in front of us (I don't want that the others want to quit!!!!!).
Joca, Jorge and André and the Tanzanian colleagues leaded by Prof. Saburi (sorry not mention all the others) already went to survey the absolute gravimetric point at the Moshi Airport. This will be our starting point for the gravimetric surveys... We just met outside of town by chance when I was arriving... The guys are really having fun... In fact, all of us... Or shouldn't I say this? Ok... This has been a very hard work... The truth is not really up to now, but the stress is really reaching high levels (and I am already kind of us to such situations). But, as we say in Portugal: "we don't like to see too good starts to our kids" - free translation...
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