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Monday, April 6, 2009

Who would have thunk it ...

The other day I just happened to put the name of the
new village (Omega) that I will be living in, into a Google
search.
I was astounded to find that it has it's own airport code.
Yeah, just like JFK and airports like that. Omega was a
military base before independence.
Oh yeah, here is a stat on the Omega runway/airport.
It is about 5,560 or so feet long which makes it over a
mile long (good place to jog). I've seen it when I
visited there a few weeks ago. It was covered with animal
dung but it definitely was long.
So just go to a web site that has an airport code search
and put in OMG.
Omega is 45 miles (70 kilometers) from anywhere, has
no public ground transport in or out. But they can virtually
land a jet liner in the village.
So who would have thunk that.

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