This was our leg from the bush to Johannesburg and our 16 hour flight home. The airport is on a military airstrip and only services connecting flights to Jo'burg, so it is a little primative.
We are all queued for the 2:00 PM departure, luggage loaded when we hear we are delayed two hours. No problem for us as we have a 10:45 PM departure, but many of our now 10 strong have flights at 7:30 PM. As with all delays this isn't simple -- plane can't fly, so a new aircraft is coming in to rescue us. Oh, by the way, this airstrip is cleared of impala by trained cheetah, or so the bus driver said -- we only saw Slender Mongoose, but that is another story.
We flew by 5:15 and landed by 6:15, but the bags for those with the tightest connections failed to be disgorged for 20 mintues. I fear (know) that a couple of couples may not have made it and spent an other night in Africa.
Susie had her shopping planned out from a previous fly-by of the shops when we departed for Botswana and based on her overflowing bags, she scored!
Now were are all alone again after our two weeks of making new friends, seeing amazing sights and taking about 80GBs of photos!
Looking forward to seeing home sweet home.
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