Capetown South Africa

February 2024

After a cancelled NCL trip, Glenn and I decided to take a quick 6 day trip to Capetown. We even got to see Mike and Adelle Roberts from Panajachel that live in a small village an hour from Capetown Read more

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- Day 9
- Monday, February 12, 2024 at 9:04 AM
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 85 ft
- South Africa Van Riebeeckstrand -33.686664, 18.45635833°41’12” S 18°27’23” E
Super Bowl & Breakfast in Bed
February 12, 2024 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
The Super Bowl
Started at 1:30am South Africa time. We both went to bed by midnight. I woke Glenn up around 3am to wake remind him of the game. He said he watched the first quarter. He gave me the score.

Then later during the night Glenn would tell me the score as I was falling back to sleep.

At 6:30am as I was about to get ready for our long travel day, Mike knocked on our door with a tray of hot coffee and juice and scones. Delicious

Now heading towards Table mountain so I can Paraguide then for our 8pm flight back to the USA.Read more
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- Day 9
- Monday, February 12, 2024 at 11:08 AM
- ☀️ 82 °F
- Altitude: 1,129 ft
- South Africa Signal Hill -33.917824, 18.402533°55’4” S 18°24’9” E
Paragliding in Capetown South Africa
February 12, 2024 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Check this off my Bucket List!

It was a soft landing.

The quickest 5 minutes in my life, but well worth it. My guide’s name was Franscois. He’s done it many a times!
TravelerCrazy!!!
2/12/24Reply
How was the landing part? I was always thinking it could be hard o the knees [Bev]
2/14/24Reply
TravelerEasy! Soft landing!
2/14/24Reply
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- Day 9
- Monday, February 12, 2024 at 7:53 PM
- ⛅ 72 °F
- Altitude: 180 ft
- South Africa Cape Town International Airport -33.968658, 18.59734533°58’7” S 18°35’50” E
Long day of travel
February 12, 2024 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
43.5 hours from door to door (Velddrif-Capetown-Newark-DFW-Tyler)

After my wonderful experience with paragliding we headed towards the airport. We returned our rental car, then sat at the table at “Wimpee” and shared a chicken dinner.

We changed to more comfortable clothes, and then met up with Jane and Dennis for our return flight.

We boarded UA flight an 14 hour flight to Newark, NJ. It was a long flight. I took more cat naps than I ever have before. I finally finished watching “Sleepless in Seattle”. I watched several episodes of The Office. And fell asleep again too.

We landed in a snow storm in NJ. Our flight to DFW was delayed by 1 hour. We finally landed and drive to see Mom and Dad.

Upon arriving into Tyler, we stopped at Brookshire’s for groceries.

A beautiful week, connecting with the missionaries and seeing stuff around CapetownRead more
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Capetown South Africa

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Super Bowl & Breakfast in Bed

Paragliding in Capetown South Africa

Long day of travel