CREATURE COMFORTS
by Jodi Winfindale It’s funny how sometimes “new and improved” doesn’t mean “fast and efficient”. We arrived in Bulawayo to a brand spanking new airport terminal that had been in the making for years. We’d pass it as we taxied the runway the past 2 years, on our way to disembark at the prior kwanza hut, with its hand written forms and visa paperwork, toilets with no seats or flushing capabilities, baggage that would be unloaded and piled up by airport staff. Tanya’s friend, Roberto, somehow instinctively knowing she’d be on that plane, would wait for us to handle our bags and would push us and our bags through customs. [...]