# Honolulu to Nairobi (and back) in 1961 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 28, 2011, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honolulu-to-nairobi-and-back-in-1961/580008 "2011-04-28T09:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Timz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honolulu-to-nairobi-and-back-in-1961/580008/82 "2025-07-17T17:50:15Z")
In January 1962 schedules, looks like the best time you can make is Leave Honolulu on United at 2355 Thursday; arrive San Francisco in the morning and board a Pan Am 707 that arrives London 0705 Saturday morning; leave London at 1800 on a BOAC Comet and arrive Nairobi at 0850 Sunday. Or you can do the same schedule but leaving Honolulu Saturday instead of Thursday. One alternative is a BOAC or QANTAS 707 Honolulu to London, then the Nairobi flight after a 20-hour stop in London. ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honolulu-to-nairobi-and-back-in-1961/580008/83 "2025-07-18T13:03:31Z")
To expand on a zombie - Just to add to something which was challenged above - a report by someone who talked to Obama and he said his mother used food stamps when he was young: > **[Most Powerful Man in the World Grew Up on Food Stamps](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-powerful-man-in-the_b_5135556)** > > I was at a dinner with Barack Obama through a series of flukes and didn't speak with him long. But I wanted to know what the president thought about child poverty. He reminded me that his mother used Food Stamps when he was young. This has been... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honolulu-to-nairobi-and-back-in-1961/580008.md?page=4)