Kongo takes a quick culture break and checks out some African sculpture from Zimbabwe while changing planes in Atlanta. Learn more about the weekly photo challenge here. Travel safe. Have fun. Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture
After flying pretty much non-stop from San Diego yesterday (leaving at 7 in the morning) Kongo arrives in Kiev at 1130 AM the next day (today). He did have about an hour layover in Atlanta and another hour in Paris to stretch his monkey legs. After checking into his hotel he headed out for a few hours of walking around Kiev. It was a pretty dreary day weather-wise. A rain had just ended but low clouds hung over everything. Temperature in the mid-40s.
Above is the Saint Volodymyr Cathedral, only a few blocks from Kongo’s hotel.
The photo above introduces Kongo’s new crew friends Cheeky and Valentine. It’s a bit of a story so bear with me.
A wonderful woman named Helen works at the Dulles Hyatt in Herndon, Virginia where Kongo usually stays when he’s working in the DC area. Helen sees Kongo get his picture taken after he arrived late by missing his scheduled flight out of San Diego and is wondering what in the world this monkey is doing sitting on her bar in the hotel lobby. So, Helen gets the whole Story of Kongo spiel and offers up her two monkeys, Cheeky and Valentine. These poor guys have been cooped up in a box in Helen’s closet for who knows how long and after hearing about Kongo’s jet setting monkey adventures all over the world, Helen decides to set them free and off they scamper with Kongo.
So, what’s a monkey to do when you get to the world’s busiest airport and realize you have four hours until your next flight? Actually, there is scads of interesting things to do at ATL and Kongo always enjoys his layovers there.
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