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At 6:00 PM April 1, 1998
Sunrise (local): 6:26 a.m. Sunset (local): 7:04 p.m.	Weather 68°F
Traveled Since Last Dispatch 0 mi / 0 km Cumulative Total 3474 mi / 5595 km	Lat: 41° 18' 57" N Lon: 19° 49' 14" E Elev: 344 ft / 105 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Tirana
Where We're Staying: Motel Armstrong
Places We Visited: Visits: Albania Education Development Project, Open Internet Center, Ismail Qemali Secondary School, Kombëtar Park, Skanderbeg Square
Featured Site: National Museum of Albania
Person of the Day: Angela, Mirj, and Swela
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: sanduic; Breakfast: coffee; Lunch: ham and cheese sandwiches; Dinner: bologna and cheese sandwiches, mince meat pastry, cheese pastry, chocolate eclairs; Olive count: 1972
Word of the Day: What sounds like "Yu shem e bugor" means "You are so pretty" in Albanian. This is one of the phrases Swela refused to teach Anthony during his vocabulary lesson. She did not want him using his new language skills for nefarious purposes.
Tech Fact of the Day: Skanderbeg: Flat Count (Cumulative): 22; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 28

Next Stop: We will be in Tirana for a few more days.

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