South Africa, finally!
Just a quick note – we’re finally out of the US! And it’s finally warm! Not scalding hot, but like “San Diego warm” (hi Jean!)
It was so crazy, we get to Washington Dulles and SA Airways says, oh no, you have a one-way ticket, how are you leaving South Africa? We say, well, we were intending to buy a bus ticket to Namibia when we get to Cape Town…they say nope, we can’t let you get on the plane until you buy an outbound ticket since South Africa requires proof of onward travel out of their country – so we buy refundable tickets to Nairobi – after, of course, John completely melted down (which you can hardly blame him since we looked into this and as far as we could tell, this was not a requirement for US Citizens) – we go through security, hit an internet cafe, buy bus tickets from Capetown to Windhoek which is in Namibia and then head to the gate where our tickets were to be waiting – after seeing our proof of onward travel they say they would void the tickets and refund the money – hopefully that will happen – never can tell with these things…otherwise we have to do the whole dispute the credit card thing…fun times!
Anyway, the flight was great – non-stop – little tv sets at each seat – huge airplane – we had to be shuttled to the plane in a little bus thing – we watched Happy Feet and Stranger than Fiction – anyway we get to South Africa – they OF COURSE didn’t ask for any proof of onward travel – just totally typical…
We’re now at our hostel North South Backpackers in Hatfield which is near Pretoria – which is a suburb north of Johannesburg – doing nothing today…will update on DC and more later…just had to get our crazy airline experience out there! Geez Louise!
Tags: Pretoria, RTW Trip, South Africa
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