3 MORE SLEEPS&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;<br /><br />MaryLou - we will be meeting Dot &amp; Roger in the airport at Washington D.C. on Wednesday afternoon.  We arrive there at 11:00 am and have to spend the day at the airport... joy&#33;  They fly in from Portland, OR at 3 pm..... our flight out is only at 6 pm.  Which is a good thing because most of the flight is in OUR night, so we can sleep a bit, even though we are flying into the rising sun.  They make us keep the shades down so that the plane stays dark and we can treat it like an East Coast night... but in reality the sun will be up at about 2 am.  Crazy isn&#39;t it.  There&#39;s a 6 hour difference, they are 6 hours ahead of us, but in a couple of weeks when we have our daylight saving time change we will have a 7 hour difference.  So that&#39;s bad for us on our return, worse for the jet lag.<br /><br />Kevin - absolutely, I take Tylenol PM and Ambien.... then when I&#39;m ready to sleep I go, eeny, meeny, miny, mo .... and take one of the above to help me sleep.  Our first flight is 2 hours and then the transatlantic flight is 16 hours, non-stop from D.C. to Johannesburg.  But coming back we have head winds, so the flight is 18 hours which is too long for the Airbus&#39; gas range, so we stop over in Dakar (on the bulge of Africa) to refuel before flying across the Atlantic.  We are not allowed off the plane during the refuel.<br />Spring in South Africa is just the same as here.... gorgeous&#33;  All the trees getting their new leaves, multitudes of flowers blooming, really pretty.<br />With regard to computer access.  Computer access is a slight problem, they have WiFi just like we do, accept our friends that we are staying with don&#39;t have WiFi and their computer has been down for 6 weeks, don&#39;t know why.  then after a week with them we&#39;ll be going on a 2 week safari to very remote area - no Internet there, back to Jhb for 3 days and then fly to Cape Town for 2 weeks where we&#39;ll have Internet access.  So what I will have to do, is go to a coffee shop in Jhb to use the computer.<br />I pretty much keep our journal (see my signature) up to date.  I do the journal daily as things happen by typing it on Word, then when I get sporadic Internet access I cut an paste the daily journals to the journal, under the pertinent dates.  My biggest problem is uploading speed for the photo&#39;s.....  Last time I uploaded a few photo&#39;s and then on my return I uploaded tons of photo&#39;s to the corresponding journal entries.  So there you have it&#33;&#33;&#33;