Final Checklist

Friday, October 25, 2024

What am I forgetting? Am I taking too many of some things? Am I taking not enough of others?

To repeat: packing can be a pain!

With two days to go does this look like progress?

At least the ride to the airport is all set: we leave the house at 5:00 am Monday morning …assuming the private car driver doesn’t use his GPS which will take him to the exit gate where he’s stopped in his tracks. Would love to know how to change that error in GPS directions.

But until we check in, pass security and get to the departure gate I won’t stop worrying. Always been a travel worrier until we get on the plane. But in this case we have never left this early. There are 24 flights leaving between 5-7 am….that’s 2300 passengers passing through security during those hours.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Feeling better. Bags packed, weighed and zipped.

Discovered I had doubled up packing some clothes so that helped meeting the weight limits. Weight of bags is only an issue with AIRLINK Airlines which we take from Cape Town, South Africa to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe: 20 kilos for the checked bag, 7 kilos for the carry-on bag and all bags must have at least one flat side (no duffle bags). Miss any of those limits and they send you to a “re-packing office” where you pay fee to right the wrong…even to adding a “flat surface.”

Barb’s brother Ed took a load off my mind by offering to take us to the airport at 5 am. What a guy!

One more day and we’re off on our great South Africa Adventure.