Summer Travels 2025

We got up at 7 so we could both shower before breakfast. We ate at the hotel. We had coffee, yogurt and granola parfaits, juice, and then we got to order a main dish. I had a vegetable omelette with cheese. It was a little chilly at breakfast. Everyone was wearing a jacket except me. I was just in a t-shirt. The restaurant part of the lodge is outside near the pool. We are staying at the Ngoma Zanga Lodge, by the way. I feel like I should have been putting that info in my blog. We had our driver from yesterday, Vincent, come pick us up at 9:30 to take us to the Zambia-Zimbabwe border. He couldn’t get super close, but he took us as far as he could. We went through immigration in Zambia and got our passports stamped. Then we had to show our passports to a border patrol officer to walk out the gate. We walked for a bit and then we had to go through Zimbabwe immigration. This line was a little longer but not too bad. After getting our passports stamped, we walked more and then showed them ...

We got up at 5:45 to get ready for our 7:30 departure. We went to breakfast at 6:20. I had scrambled eggs, toast, yogurt, Weetabix cereal, juice, and coffee. As we were finishing up breakfast, it was decided   that we should try to leave by 7:05. We hurried and loaded up. We left at 7:15. I got a picture with  Reinette. It was very cold. When we got to the airport, we returned our rental van and went to check-in for our flight. It is a bit tricky because we were flying Airlink so we had to check-in at the counters in the domestic terminal, but after we checked our bags, we had to head to the international terminal to go through security. Ruth had told us to allow at least two hours to go through security at Joburg. The line was completely filled, but it didn’t seem like a ridiculous number of people in line. However, there were only two open security lanes so it didn’t go as fast as it should have. A few people at a time started cutting through the line, then a few more, then ...