Cape Town Day 1

Good morning! Our 27 hour journey turned into a 30 hour journey, but we arrived safely and well, AND we got a good night's rest. We haven't left our B&B yet, but the coastal view is WOW. I think we're going to enjoy Cape Town. Here is Brian with the details while I go get ready!

Noosha

As Noosha mentioned, the journey was long.  Three movies, multiple magazine articles, countless airplane meals, and several transfers.  We arrived at LAX at 6:00AM on Sunday and arrived in Cape Town around 10:00PM Monday.  Unfortunately I didn't get to see the terminal in Dakar as we sat on the tarmac and not at a terminal, oh well. 

Going to Africa is a bit different than going to other places we have traveled.  Namely people come here to kill.  We saw several people dressed as if they were going on safari the moment the exited the plane.  Seriously, they had the safari shirts, zip off pants, their safari hats with one side pinned up, and camo everything.  This one guy had some tree camo shirt and matching jacket and backpack.  Too funny.

Interestingly we sat next to a South African Parliament member on the flight from Joburg to Cape Town (in coach no less).  It was like sitting next to Dianne Feinstein or something.  Very down to earth guy who got us pillows and shared his chips with us.  He invited us over for dinner with his wife while in Cape Town and told us to call him if we need anything while in his country.  

In typical fashion we threw ourselves into the adventure head first.  Nothing like arriving in a new country after traveling for 27 hours with minimal sleep than renting a manual car and driving on the wrong side of the road.  Yep.  We picked up our little Opal Corsa manual (a week old I might add) at the wrong terminal and were set loose to wreak havoc on the roads of Cape Town. Actually it was not bad at all.  I keep telling myself (and Noosha yells to) KEEP LEFT! 

We managed to get ourselves a bit lost getting to the hotel.  Add to that we really had no directions to the hotel.  All we had was an address and a note that it was off the main road.  We drove up and down the main road 3 times and no Hove St.  As luck would have it we found a police officer patrolling the neighborhood who nicely escorted up to Hove St around midnight.

The B&B is quite nice.  I am writing now in the living room looking over the Atlantic with Table Mountain behind us.  You can see the cable car out the back from the pool.  The winds are quite stiff but the sun is out and the winds are actually kind of warm.  Things are shaping up to be a great day!

Brian
(the epic blogger)