We finally arrived home late yesterday afternoon after a marathon 36 hours traveling from Johannesburg, South Africa.  This is one L O N G flight.  We left Jo'burg (Now they are starting to call it "Josie") on South African Airways at 7:05 PM on Sunday night.  The first leg of the flight is 8 1/2 hours to Dakar, Senegal.  That's right...1/2 of the trip to New York travels almost 5,000 miles up the west coast of Africa.  We stopped for a one hour re-fueling stop in Dakar which included one of their rather unusual security checks.  This was the 4th time that we have made one of these stops on our South Africa trips.  Everytime it is done differently.  This time we were asked to remove all of our bags from the overhead compartments while the "Securete" crew searched there.  We were told that any bags left in the overhead would be removed!  The security folks also did a thorough pat down of all of the seats.  Who knows what they might have been looking for!  There were lots of "Securete" people.  I think that this is one of the ways that the Senegal government must be providing jobs to their citizens.  Finally, we were off for the final 7+ hour leg to New York and Immigration. We arrived in New York on time at 7:10 AM EST.  All went well there.  Friendly folks at US Immigration, JFK.  We were through Immigration in minutes. Then a five hour wait for our non-stop Delta flight to Tampa.  Arrived at TPA at 4:30 PM.  I was almost falling asleep at dinner.  In bed by 8:30 PM.  Happy to be back in Florida looking forward to reviewing all of my photos from the Dark Continent.

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