I must say as excited as I am about this trip, I have been
dreading the actual travel part. Just
over 25 hours in travel time, more than 30 hours if you include time to/from
airports. A 14 hour non-stop flight to Nairobi,
a 6 hour layover in Nairobi before taking off on my flight to Cape Town and all
in economy. Simply brutal. I’ve been telling myself for months, just
accept it going to be awful, but it will be amazing once you get there. When I originally booked my flight it was
only 19 hours of total travel time, however, the changed the flight out of Nairobi
to a much later flight, leaving me in the airport for hours. And it’s a small airport. Not a lot to do for 6 hours. So what’s a Traveling Hillbilly supposed to
do with all this time? Get the blog
postings started!
So how was the flight from JFK to Narobi? Long, very long. The service on Kenya Airways was great. It was just a very long time to not be able
to get up and move about much. I
probably need to spend the next 6 hours stretching! I got no sleep on the plane, maybe 15 -20
minutes. I just could not fall asleep,
even after taking some Nyquil. The
Traveling Hillbilly watched 3 movies, 2-3 episodes of some TV sitcoms and our
flight tracker.
I’m still hours away from my final destination for the first
part of the trip. I will try to keep
myself awake so when I do finally get
to my hotel in Cape Town late this evening, I’ll be ready for what I hope will
be a good night’s sleep so I can have some fun tomorrow!
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