We’re Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto!
Honey, I’m Home
This is what happiness looks like after 36 exhausting hours of traveling.
This adventure began on August 26,2021. Early in the afternoon I boarded a plane in Tallahassee, Florida headed for Cape Town, South Africa. This wasn’t my first trip across the ocean to be with Kim, but this time it was different.
This time I had a one-way ticket.
Earlier in the year, Kim and I made the decision that I would move from the US to South Africa. We got engaged on New Year’s Eve 2020 and spent the next few months getting paperwork in order so I could immigrate to SA and we could get married.
That, my friends, is a story for another post.
I arrived in Cape Town at around 10:30am, exhausted from the 36 hour trip. The entire trip I felt like a kid that was going to Disneyland for the first time and we weren’t just getting there fast enough.
I’ll be honest in saying I was extremely nervous coming through the immigration checkpoint. As I said, I had a one-way ticket and, although South Africa gives Americans 90 day tourist visas on entry, I was worried that the lack of a return ticket and that I was coming to visit my fiancée that I was going to be rejected and sent back to the US.
All the worrying was for naught, as I breezed through immigration, zipped through the unstaffed customs checkpoint, and into the waiting arms of my love.
We hadn’t been together since January, and after nearly 210 days, we were back in each other’s arms.
Now it was time to head home and have a good nap.
…did I mention we bought a house in Stellenbosch and not only haven’t I lived in it, I had only seen it once… in December…the last time I was here in South Africa
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