Actually I can well imagine that her mindset at the time was so romantically driven by the “exoticness” of Obama Sr...
That when asked if she would like to visit Kenya, she jumped at the chance...
(Or was she concerned the Obama Sr might not come back and she was making sure that she was sticking close to him ????)
She was not a mature woman who would have had the patience to wait till after the baby was born and then go...
Apparantly she travelled TO Kenya extremely late in her pregnancy...
and what if the idea was to have Obama Jr born in Kenya ????
Sometime in 1969 I flew on an "stratocruiser" to Iceland, and then to Luxembourg. It was the most excruciating and nasty flight I'd ever taken. Noisy, crowded, bad air...... you name it.
The same sort of planes, and worse, would have been used on a multi-legged flight from Hawaii to Nairobi in 1961.
Air travel then was far different than air travel now.