Off to South Africa

Note to self: next time you get ready to go on a big trip, make sure you have your passport before you leave home. Yes, that’s right: I woke up at about 3am this morning with the bolt-out-of-the-blue realization that a) I had forgotten my passport and b) I was approximately 980nm away from it. After puzzling over it for a while, I sent Tim a text message begging for help; he stopped by the house on his way to work and grabbed it, then met me at the Detroit airport. Fortunately, for this trip I’d booked MLU-MEM-DTW-AMS-JNB instead of my original MLU-ATL-CDG-JNB plan, or my goose would have been cooked. Now I have my passport, most of my stuff (missing one electrical adapter, which is survivable), and am headed to AMS to change planes!