Homeward Bound

We arrived in Cape Town on February 5th and now it’s time to head home. Our flight from Cape Town to Newark NJ departed at 7:50 p.m. yesterday (Thursday March 24th) arriving in New York at 5:00 a.m. today, Friday March 25th. The flight from Cape Town to Newark was easy – movies, food and sleep – and the next thing we knew we were preparing for landing.

The easy ended once we landed in Newark. For some reason all passengers (even in-transit) had to collect their luggage and clear US Customs. Luckily our bags were tagged to Toronto, and we were checked in, so we didn’t have to go through the tagging and check-in lines – we just had to take our luggage to baggage drop-off. The crazy part was the security line – we estimate there were several thousand people in line. It took us 2 frustrating hours to get to our gate. Thank goodness we have lots of time.

We are scheduled to leave New York at 10:16 a.m., arriving in Toronto at 11:56 a.m. We had our Covid antigen test Thursday so it is good for USA and Canada (and yes it was negative x 2). Arrive Canada app is also complete so hopefully it will be an easy entrance into Canada.

Travel is never easy, but it was worth it. We had the most amazing weather the whole time we were in South Africa. All accommodations and travel arrangements worked out well.

Thank you South Africa for another wonderful visit.

A few photos from each of the places we stayed:

Wilderness

Olivers and Inyati

Franschhoek and Cape Town