East Africa extra -- infrastructure
As an electrical engineer, I'm fascinated by the ad hoc nature of the wiring infrastructure in these old cities. It looks like once a utility runs a big wire, everybody jumps in with their little wires, using the structure and supports of the first wire. But since they don't have ice storms here, and no trees to fall across the wires, it seems to work for them.
In administrative matters, we're now 10 hours ahead of EST (UTC+5), so for the next month or so we're on the opposite side of the clock from most of you.
Also, there will be a pause in any new entries here on blog, as we're leaving the ship for three nights going overland to Dehli and Agra in India to visit the Taj Mahal. We'll be back on the ship on March 4 and have a sea day on March 5 where we might be able to get some new entries in.
As an electrical engineer, I'm fascinated by the ad hoc nature of the wiring infrastructure in these old cities. It looks like once a utility runs a big wire, everybody jumps in with their little wires, using the structure and supports of the first wire. But since they don't have ice storms here, and no trees to fall across the wires, it seems to work for them.
In administrative matters, we're now 10 hours ahead of EST (UTC+5), so for the next month or so we're on the opposite side of the clock from most of you.
Also, there will be a pause in any new entries here on blog, as we're leaving the ship for three nights going overland to Dehli and Agra in India to visit the Taj Mahal. We'll be back on the ship on March 4 and have a sea day on March 5 where we might be able to get some new entries in.
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