Friday August 21, 2015. The day we leave Cape Town.

Friday August 21, 2015.

Felice and I got up and had our continental breakfast at the old Victoria and Alfred hotel on the waterfront with an excellent view of Table Mountain on another gorgeous day.

We strolled around the waterfront and saw a couple of ships in dry dock being refurbished. Then we wandered into the One & Only hotel (swanky).

Lastly we went to the crafts market called Water Shed. There are hundreds of stalls of all local artisans.

We got back to the hotel at 10:45 as planned as we had packed and our driver was due to show up at 11:10. Problem--11:10am was the time of our hotel pickup at Vic Falls.

We see Hayes in the lobby. He shoots out of his chair and says we have to go now our flight is at 12:20.

We run upstairs and smart Hannah is in our room and she has packed our bags so we shove in our purchases and haul tail downstairs, jump in the van and we make it to the airport with a few minutes to spare.

So now I sit on board our flight surrounded by my great family. I'm especially proud of H&H for soldering through all the early wake ups and planes and travel stuff and for Felice and her excellent planning of this trip.

We fly to Joburg and the have a 5 hour layover for a 7p flight that lands in Atlanta at 5am.

Just landed in ATL---chic-fil-a for breakfast as we wait on our 10:30 flight

BY the way, our flight was the second longest flight in commercial aviation at this time---wow!

Rank (Dist.)	From	To	Airline	Flight number	Distance km (mi) [nmi]	Scheduled duration	Aircraft type	First flight
1[11]	Dallas/Fort Worth	Sydney	Qantas	QF 8	13,804 (8,578) [7,454]	16 hr 55 min† 16 hr 50 min‡[12]	Airbus A380-800	29 September 2014[note 1][14][15][16]
2	Johannesburg	Atlanta	Delta Air Lines	DL 201	13,582 (8,439) [7,334]	16 hr 40 min† 16 hr 05 min‡[17]	Boeing 777-200LR	3 June 2009[18]
3	Abu Dhabi	Los Angeles	Etihad Airways	EY 171	13,502 (8,390) [7,291]	16 hr 30 min	Boeing 777-200LR	1 June 2014[19]
4	Dubai-International	Los Angeles	Emirates	EK 215	13,420 (8,339) [7,246]	16 hr 35 min	Airbus A380-800	26 October 2008[20]
5	Jeddah	Los Angeles	Saudia	SV 41	13,409 (8,332) [7,240]	16 hr 55 min† 17 hr 20 min‡[21]	Boeing 777-300ER	31 March 2014[22]
6	Dubai-International	Houston-Intercontinental	Emirates	EK 211	13,144 (8,168) [7,097]	16 hr 20 min	Airbus A380-800	3 December 2007[23]

We made it back to ATL and cleared customs and had a 5 hour layover for our flight to Greensboror. BY 1pm we are back in our home. 

Hayes leaves for Vandy tomorrow. 

We had an amazing trip.

Good day to all.