Trip to Lagos

I just returned from Lagos, Nigeria where I stayed for a number of days. I happened to walk into notice the news about the Malaysia Airliner which went missing it's been a long journey coming back home a few things to mention after coming back then post some links, since leaving from Dallas Love Field last week. Our flight arrived late on Thursday ironic because it happened to be close to my brothers birthday. I however wasn't able to speak to him before departing with my cousin at the wheels, it was me and mom I got a call after leaving a local department store. I answered the call and it's my cousin on the phone telling me to hurry up and make it, I said alright I got to send some mail then we're leaving i'm in a rush please give me 1 1/2 hours. I spent that morning watching television I was making plans in my mind I wanted to return some stuff I had purchased nearby, a pair of jeans and shirts. Since I didn't pay for anything I suddenly pulled up onto where I stay to meet my mother she's all packed and ready to go i'm given 30.00 NGN which I quickly realize needs to be put into the pocket. I put the luggage into the car i'm taking there so I say goodbye to everyone and take off for my cousins home located some 0.181984 USD distance away, exact amount given to me. After arriving I knock on the door and am told what to do so I sit down after doing whatever usually it's either exit the property or watch out kids playing on the main street, so I do as I was told. I happen to have been sending some mail so I give them to my cousin he says we shouldn't miss the flights and need to run there as quickly as possible there is a computer so I do some searching and find the NY Times biz page. I am sitting down looking at the computer screen and they're talking and speaking in foreign language which sounds like rap to me but I was hearing something about pizza and laughter. I am ready I do some final analysis of the journey which should take a lot of money, I don't work and have been arguing with mom about leaving certain items to keep the budget down. I check my weight which is an astonishing 224.00 lbs and carry the bags out the house into the car. My cousins tells me to sit in the front seat and we depart I am listening to the weather and tuned in I recall seeing something about two days of rainfall, then sunny the other times of the week it's west of where I grew up so I also do some searching for Kenyans. Before leaving I listen to the news and see the Kenyan president reversing a tractor trailer, we are going to use the Dallas toll way some buses going the opposite side of traffic no intention to stop and shop at the mall you know it's usually busy seeing people at the mall after church. The airport looks empty we go past the rental car center and the aerospace facility where they are supposed to be keeping count of what takes place, I am taking notes the man at the front counter asks for my passport and I hand it over. My cousin is the one who dropped us off I explain to the man who my mother is I did explain it to a few people I hope they didn't mind me using a bold choice of words. But it's time to leave Dallas a place I've stayed in for 2 years Africa is going to be cool but we're going to stop in Houston, Texas to make the connection. We are sitting there waiting it's the wrong gate and the planes have been running left and right after entering I tell mom and my cousin that we're at the wrong gate and need to move closer to the left. We slowly get up not to look silly or nothing this is a business airport the place where LBJ was sworn in as the president of America shortly after JFK was assassinated. I am thirsty and need something to cool me off I've been sitting down so I order a Turkey sandwich and a bottle of water, the person paying asked if I wanted something it is now obvious that private aviation or jets flying nearby belong to wealthy politicians with bonobo credentials i'm maybe not one of them but I find some woman selling magazines. Just before sunset it's now evening time and the plane hasn't arrived yet I notice the fire department leaving the premises we might have missed the departure but I really need to get this journey over with I want to make a second trip. The fireman and the truck leave the property nothing else is going on there is an employee standing at the counter and she is looking down perhaps into the computer, the gentleman from Southwest or maybe United Airlines begins telling us the details and I am feeling sleepy so I take a quick nap before realizing that the flight isn't going to be leaving until 6:30 pm this is when the evening news come on so I ignore the people seated nearby one of them is from asia wearing a green jacket the other is a Nigerian female she is talking on the phone. By the time they tell us that the flight got caught up I am about ready to take off so the place arrives and comes in to pick us up and outta there, the terminal is about closed so some people are walking out and we have been clapping and singing thanks for eons. Houston looks clean the airport is where I think they hosted the All Star game back last year so i'm looking around to notice a computer screen, nobody around at the terminal near the restaurant, it's closing time everything is over and done for the day I even realize some of the people sitting inside them gone. So I just follow along as we go to the United Airlines reservation or customer service center to ask where the plane was located, I am now guessing that I look weak or unable to fly alone because i'm single maybe or it's the unusual cat. We are told to come back tomorrow evening there isn't going to be any travel at night so they put us in a hotel and tell us their going to give us a ride to spend the night at Park Inn. I am very tired so I purchase some food with the coupons which I didn't want to recycle but wanted to use I purchase two slices of pizza as i'm sitting down listening to some people chatting nearby. The food court is there I do notice the people we are traveling with aren't happy with the look of things so I just hear come on let's go, so I get up to go outside the weather is almost cold I don't have anything expensive just a jacket. The ride arrives and we exit the premises again this time towards the hotel, the next day we have to wait until 7:30 pm but I am ready Texas is very busy from the looks of it the Beltway is full I'm here eating breakfast sitting at the hotel. However this isn't going to take long so we have to wait for the taxi to take us there, I've been looking at Kenya and intend to travel into Nairobi. So we leave and arrive at the United terminal counter again right near the border patrol entrance or United States customs and immigration counter you shouldn't miss it if your flying in/out of the country. We get into the airport and quickly it's time to sit down again I suppose because of the alarm of traveling without money I need security so I just stand up and begin walking where to I dunno but I am following the people I am with a group of women for this organization named Scoan.org I dunno many people in Texas but before leaving home I made sure to speak to a friend of mine about my journey. At the gate which I recall was E20 or something we sit down there is a game on TNT anyway the check in isn't running thru my mind I fell asleep. So after getting confirmation to use the bathrooms, I notice a flight bound for Heathrow opposite where I am sitting watching this game, so I look at my ticket and figure that it's getting busier, this maybe one of the busiest airports in the entire country as you leave and look down at the employees. I wasn't talking to anyone but someone on the phone next to me a Nigerian remember I am flying there it's another day another dollar you can hear it in the air in fact we watched CNN Russian president Putin taking everyone for a ride or taking blame for what's happening in Europe Ukraine, and Crimean a movie. So even though I would have wanted to go to London, Great Britain i'm all set to challenge the woman asking me to stand next to this machine which appears to be for pilots it's a printer. The flight into Lagos, Nigeria was full I almost didn't enter it but I check out first class seats okay. We are moving towards Florida and i'm watching a movie about Kenyan street gangs some scenes very awkward but encouraging alcohol is very bad these actors look dangerous comparing myself to an American version of HBO series The Wire. On arrival at Lagos Nigeria airport I look down my seat is kind of hiding what's really happening but the poverty is alarming. Nothing else to do except walk out that taxi meter I am certain landing cost more than most would think, I noticed DHL, Arik and Air France we however aren't allowed to speak because the airport is well known to be dangerous place military executive style. I don't often travel but this appears to be an idea from my mother and cousin, so I just sit and ask them to change subjects today however I am asking for my luggage Nigerians are filling up behind me I hand over my passport and show them the visa which I obtained from the Americans. I leave the terminal only to be lucky to find this one chap who tells me he's a rapper and has a cellular phone in hand to play something he's been recording, I asked what he is doing in the airport and he's a real thief but I guess standing at the airport trying to make a living. But the other people are walking out to I don't see these women we arrived with but at baggage claim is where everyone gathered around and stood up talking females getting set for the night out. I am about fed-up so I take my stuff and begin walking around asking for where the rest of the people I came with are I go outside?? no sign of them so I walk back into the terminal and notice Ethiopian flight crew going past me I however dunno what they could be speaking of did you hear anything I am wondering. So the airport looks really cold. I could understand the softness of not having my bags given to me as promised but we get some sad news about the Malaysian Airliner which crashed after departure. It went missing from radar screen it went down inside church, they took so long to end service but we happen to be staying there in the main capital for a few days preacher enters the church to make the announcement. He is dressed in blue jeans and dress shirt people moving about prepared to listen some in African clothing others unable to come to terms with certain stuff but it's a big church. I am seated down next to the exit wearing clothes and shoes but leaving was the hardest thing because we are being taken back in a white bus with curtains, I recall listening to a lot of reggae, dancehall artist but Nigeria appears to be on the brink of loosing it's mind, I realize the time zones to be the same nothing much to obtain except a return flight back home to Texas.

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