Back to Namibia and South Africa

[chrisinhouston]

Left Houston on Wednesday and flew in the big Lufthansa A-380-800 double decker, took a celebratory picture of my pre-flight glass of champagne. Business class was ok, the food is a joke but the lie flat seats are not too bad and I actually got some sleep. We had a 13 hour layover in Frankfurt, the Lufthansa Senator's lounge helped the time pass. We ate dinner in the airport again, a nice steak place and then took the 11PM all night flight to Johannesburg, we skip the plane food as we have eaten and it'sfter 11pm. Had a 3 hour layover and then our flight to Namibia on a small tight cramped SAA Express jet. That finished about 30 hours of travel.

I woke up somewhere over central Africa at sunrise, I think it was over the Congo. Saw a beautiful thunderstorm with the big anvil shaped clouds and lightening below. The jet was slowly maneuvering around it and I watched it and saw beautiful flashes of lightening from within. All I had was my cellphone handy, other cameras were in the overhead compartment. Everyone else had their shades down so I guess the folks in the flight deck and I were the only ones who saw it.

After getting our bags at the Walvis Bay airport we went to Hertz to get our car. The girl had trouble with running my American Express card so told us to go on and leave, she got the address and phone for where we are staying, she didn't seem too concerned that we were leaving with a fairly new Toyota Rav 4 without securing the payment.

Drove down the coastal highway to Swakopmund. We got checked into our apartment and just in time to snap a shot of the sunset. The Atlantic is very cold here, lots of cold sea breezes so it reminds me of London in the winter or maybe Seattle. Love the sound of the waves crashing on the beach day and night, we are a few hundred feet from the shore with a small public parking lot between.

These were all cellphone shots, I use the Snapseed App to edit and enhance.