On July 3, we got up at 2 am to finish getting ready for this trip. We left Elkhart, IN at 4:00am to drive to Joshua’s home. He then accompanied us to the South Bend airport to help with our six suitcases (some for TWR items) and drive our car back to his house. Our flight took off about 7:30am (only 15 minutes late). Our trip took us to the Minneapolis airport to catch our next flight to Atlanta. Fortunately, our daughter-in-law, Angelique, had made arrangements for a wheel chair or cart to meet us to transfer Virginia (her knees and hips were causing pain) between flights. We were very grateful for this assistance. Both transfers would have been very LONG walks, plus Larry also got to ride the electric carts!

On Monday July 4, we arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, after a very long 15 1/2 hour flight at 4:55 p.m. We waited in a long line for an hour and half just to get to the immigration desks. Fortunately the time went quickly as we had a long interesting chat with a very nice, newly wed, couple in be their 40’s. Immigration processing was quick, but it took another 45 minutes to locate our suitcases that had already been removed from the carousel.

TWR Africa’s Director of Technical Services, Stephen Murray, met us at the airport. When he said that he would meet us wearing a blue baseball cap, Larry said he would wear his red bush hat. Stephen spotted us right away and took us to the lodge at the Africa Support Center (ASC) in Kempton Park, where we spent the night.