The 12 hour flight from Cape Town to London Heathrow was uneventful. I watched 2 movies, had a good dinner with another excellent South African white wine, read some, slept about 7 hours, had breakfast, and the we arrived right on time in London. It is much cooler in London (and also typically rainy) today - London is much farther north than Cape Town is south, so even though it is summer here and winter there, it is warmer in Cape Town.
We arrived at Terminal 1 in London and I had to transfer to Terminal 3 for United Airlines. That took a while but got to where I needed to be, got checked in and went to the Business Class Lounge. Took a shower in their facilities and changed clothes which made me feel much better. Used their computer facilities and then just hung out for about 3 hours waiting for my flight to Washington Dulles. It feels good to be headed home now - but what great adventures I've had.
The flight from London Heathrow to Washington Dulles was uneventful. I watched 2 movies (Shooter with Mark Wahlberg) and Bridge to Taribithia and I finished my James Patterson book. On landing I connected my cell phone to Verizon for the firt time in 6 weeks and retrieved the 20 messages that were there - one sad one from Judy O'Donnell in St Louis informing me of Gary Young's death.
The plane landed at a remote terminal so we had to be shuttled in but immigration, baggage claim and customs were quick. I got on a waiting rental car bus, picked up my car and headed to Virginia to Chris' house (my son). The 70 mile journey from Dulles to Fredericksburg took 2 hours due to the heavy DC traffic. Chris was at home from work waiting for me - it was good to see him again after more than 2 months.
I did 4 loads of laundry (it's nice to have clean clothes again!) and he and I went to Uno for a quick and light dinner. A huge thunderstorm started as we were finishing dinner and we got drenched going to the car. Chris hooked up my camera disc to his computer when we got back to his house and I was able to see my pictures for the first time in large size. He was a trooper watching them with me as I went through the almost 1,000 pictures - I have some purging and editing to do later on them!
I went to bed about 10 pm and slept until 7:30 on Saturday - I was really tired. Weird dreams though of being in ruins in either India or South Africa and not being able to find my way!!!! Dr. "Floyd" in China told me that everyone dreams every night - the issue is whether or not you remeber the dreams. Funny!
Larry
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