I never knew making travel arrangments could be so difficult! Trying to get conferees to our upcoming web ministry conference has been quite a challenge. Getting from Kyrgyzstan to Budapest is more than a trivial matter. No Hungarian embassy in Kyrgyzstan, so you have to go to Kazakstan for a visa from the embassy there. And that doesn’t even count obtaining a Letter of Invitation and the processing delay.

Mali? Even harder. The closest Hungarian embassy is in Rabat – two countries away in Morocco. I hope my friend Oumar can make it.

Makes me appreciate my U.S. passport!