We arrived today in Béré, Chad! we will spend our "honeymoon" in the mission field. The travel was a bit tiring.
We left Manila Sunday evening and arrived late in Hong Kong. An Chinese attendant was waiting for us at the airport to help us not miss our connection to Bangkok. We were like running in the airport, through all different checkpoints. China, the beautiful? Will see this next time!
Bangkok - Addis Ababa was without any incident.
We had to wait a long time in Addis to get our flight for N'Djamena.
In N'Djamena we had the (bad) surprise that our bags were NOT there! We made a complaint to the local authorities. We were told that because we were late in Hong Kong (our luggage were not able to run in Hong Kong airport like we did), the bags didn't make the connection but took the following flight and therefore should be arriving in N'Djamena tomorrow. Hoping that it is true.
As we exit the customs, we meet Gary Roberts, whom I recognize right away even though I never saw him in picture. We explain the situation to him and he goes to speak to the custom to tell them someone will come to pick up the bags tomorrow. As for us we will take another (small) plane to go to Béré.
Our chance is that big shot Garwin McNeilus is arriving tomorrow and a plane was rented to take him, plus 2 nurses accompanying him, to Béré. And there is also room for Gary, Lindie and I, the pilot and his little daughter in the plane. It's a Cessna Caravane.
We left Manila Sunday evening and arrived late in Hong Kong. An Chinese attendant was waiting for us at the airport to help us not miss our connection to Bangkok. We were like running in the airport, through all different checkpoints. China, the beautiful? Will see this next time!
Bangkok - Addis Ababa was without any incident.
We had to wait a long time in Addis to get our flight for N'Djamena.
In N'Djamena we had the (bad) surprise that our bags were NOT there! We made a complaint to the local authorities. We were told that because we were late in Hong Kong (our luggage were not able to run in Hong Kong airport like we did), the bags didn't make the connection but took the following flight and therefore should be arriving in N'Djamena tomorrow. Hoping that it is true.
As we exit the customs, we meet Gary Roberts, whom I recognize right away even though I never saw him in picture. We explain the situation to him and he goes to speak to the custom to tell them someone will come to pick up the bags tomorrow. As for us we will take another (small) plane to go to Béré.
Our chance is that big shot Garwin McNeilus is arriving tomorrow and a plane was rented to take him, plus 2 nurses accompanying him, to Béré. And there is also room for Gary, Lindie and I, the pilot and his little daughter in the plane. It's a Cessna Caravane.
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