Traveling between the USA and Africa is a long and tiring
trip no matter what, but the way I’m doing it this time is a bit special. When I left Mali in April I went by car with
friends to Senegal. Then I bought a
round trip ticket between Senegal and Chicago, and a separate ticket from
Chicago to Minnesota because it was so much cheaper than flying direct to MN. In returning to Mali, I am using the return ticket
between Chicago and Senegal and I’ve had to buy two more tickets to connect
each end of that. So I have 3 tickets to
get back: Duluth to Chicago, Chicago to
Dakar, Senegal (which has a layover in Washington,D.C.,) and Dakar to Bamako. This means that instead of checking my bags
once and not thinking about them again until my destination, I have to collect
them and recheck them in Chicago and Dakar (so 3 times total to check in with
my bags for flights!) It will be a long
trip, and of course once I get to Bamako I’ll have another 7 hours on the road
to arrive home. But that will be
the next day because I’ll be awfully tired after dealing with about 25 hours
straight of travel and a 5 hour time change.
I will leave my mom’s house at 4am on Sunday and if all goes according
to plan, I should get home and see Jean-Patrick around 2pm Tuesday. I’m excited, but I kind of wish I could just
skip over all the travel and just suddenly be there. Oh well, maybe I'll get to see a cool new movie on one of my flights or something.
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