A good little story...

We've been here a day now but our trip over is a good little tale:

4:30 AM - Meet at the Nashville airport
5:00 AM - Check in and go through security
5:15 AM - United Airlines cancels our flight
5:30 AM - Rush to US Air flight to Charlotte - denied
6:00 AM - Go back to front desk and United finds us a flight to Reagan National
6:45 AM - We take off for National
10:00 AM - We arrive at National - United buys us 5 cabs which is enough for all but four of us. They truly don't care we need a six. "We have a formula. You only need five cabs."
11:00 AM - We make it to Dulles with our bags. All is good.
12:45 PM - We take off for Africa! It seems the flight actually stops is Dakar, Senegal. No big deal and should only take an hour or so...
8 hours later - We arrive in Dakar. There is a strike and no one can fuel the aircraft. There is also a traffic jam on the tarmac. We leave two hours later for Sol island which is about an hour off the coast to refuel. Takes an hour.
8 hours later again - We arrive in Joburg. Total time on the plane (without exiting) was 20 hours.

We then headed to the hotel via bus. Joburg is a lot like Denver with an arid climate and high altitude. We freshened up a bit and then had a wonder Indian meal with the Bishop of Johannesburg.

More tomorrow as we tour Soweto. That's when the real trip begins.