8/1/2022 – Our journey started at 1:45 pm
We drove to Pipersville to meet our ride to Newark and drop Harley off at ”Uncle Bill’s” on the way. We met Kim and Kevin on time, loaded our luggage and off to Newark where our teammate, Jen, has family that will drop us off at the airport. By 5:30pm we made it to the airport and checked our bags… fingers crossed that they all make it to Johannesburg, South Africa… on the same plane as us!
Our Newark 8:45 pm direct flight to Joburg was delayed for an hour and thankfully we took off at 9:40. After almost 16 hours of an intermittently turbulent flight and about 5 hours of interupted sleep, we landed at 6:30 pm, South Africa time. The airport was deserted, and it felt like we arrived in the middle of the night, but it didn’t matter… We are in AFRICA!!!
ALL of our group’s baggage arrived in one piece and passed customs with no problem… even the 48-pound small bag with Paul’s tools came unharmed.
Once we went through customs, we walked through the airport to the City Lodge Hotel, where we stayed for the night. Our next flight to Victoria Falls was only scheduled once a day, in the morning, so we grabbed dinner and headed to bed… up early to get breakfast and head back to the airport for our morning flight.
Did I mention we are in South Africa? Who would have guessed that would happen!?!