Packing

Woo hoo!  That was a fun morning!  My good buddy Jay arrived at base this week, and as my touring back to back TRE, we've arranged our schedules to overlap by a few days so we can train and check each other, and it just so happens we were both due for some recurrent training.  We fired up the sleek and sexy AW139 and headed off into the azure blue Tanzanian sky, failing engines and simulating fires and throwing every sort of emergency we could come up with at each other, and as always, it was a blast. I couldn't fathom a better way to spend the last day of my tour.  Then there was a base meeting where management reiterated the new restrictions to base life, and as the freedom of the base was one of it's redeeming features, I'm now putting out feelers for other options.  I've turned down quite a few different postings over the past two years, but I'm now looking with interest at what is available out there.  I've sort of tied myself into this remote spot with the TRE post and SAR instructing, as most bases don't have a SAR component, but I've got a few strings that hopefully I can pull.   Over two years in East Africa on the highest turnover base in the company, I think I'm due for a change, but I won't hold my breath either.  We'll see.  Regardless, hopefully by this time tomorrow I'm lounging around a resort pool in Dar es Salaam waiting for my flight to Istanbul, maybe sipping on a dawa or two, then on to Canada and home!