In the past four days, I have traveled through 4 countries, over three continents, on less than 12 hours of sleep. This is honestly the most fun I have ever had traveling!
Welcome to South Africa, friends! I am currently sitting in the Johannesburg airport in South Africa, waiting with our group to make our connecting flight to Durban, which leaves around 6:20 a.m. I'm sitting here, finishing a cup of Chai tea, watching over all of our bags as the rest of the team sleeps and wanders the area. We are all wiped out. Traveling through four time zones in three days is exhausting.
On Monday, November 28th, we met at 6 a.m. in our dining room at the YWAM DP base in Belize. We ate breakfast together, then traveled into San Pedro to catch a water taxi into Belize City. Once landing in Belize City, we said our farewells to our Guatemala team, who were not traveling with us to the airport.
Once at the airport, the South Africa team broke into two teams of seven. My team left for Miami first, about six hours ahead of the other team. We spent six hours in the Miami airport before heading into an 8 hour flight to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, we had a 22 hour layover, which we spent at the house of Rene's brother, Dennis De Waard. He and his wife, Kirsten, took in Tracy, Megan, Jo and I, while Charis, Alicia and Duft stayed the night at the house of one of their church members. It was incredible seeing and tasting a bit of Holland. The cheese is incredible!
We met up with the second traveling team on November 30th, and from there we all traveled on an 11 hour flight to Johannesburg. We are currently taking turns alternating between sleeping and keeping an eye on our bags. This has been such an incredible journey so far! I will write more about it later, and add some pictures. I look forward to sharing more with you!
