Leaving Tomorrow!

I am leaving tomorrow! Ahhhh! I am very, very excited. On Thursday, Carolyn came over and I had a little bit of a "what the heck am I getting myself into" moment, but that has passed and I am thrilled.

My bag is a little heavy with gazillion bottles of bug spray, sunscreen, water (not that much, but you never know), any kind of medicine you could dream of and clothes all of the same color palette -- green, brown, khaki. I brought another bag in case it is over the limit, which I am pretty positive it will be. I do not know how to pack lightly.

So 2 hours on the plane to Atlanta and then 19 on the plane to Johannesburg. As some of you know, I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime so hopefully it won't be a problem. I brought All Creatures Great and Small to finish reading and Prodigal Summer to start. Now that I am thinking about it, puzzles would be a good thing to have too.

I will be staying at a hotel in Joburg Monday night and then meeting my "transfer" to take me to Lephalale on Tuesday morning. Send good thoughts to me while I am in the Joburg airport! It will be....interesting....the things I have read don't portray it to be very safe. But don't worry, I will be careful and alert.

Well, this is my first blog entry. Hopefully the ones to follow will be much more interesting and exciting. Leave comments! I want to hear from all of you!