Day 1: Departure Las Vegas

The journey has begun. Up early, drove to McCarran Airport for a flight leaving at 9 am. An uneventful flight to Newark, New Jersey took three hours, actually 2.5 with an amazingly stiff tail wind. Another 8-hour flight to Amsterdam where we enjoyed Dutch hospitality for only a couple of hours before flying on to Nairobi – another 8-hour flight. Flying over the Sahara Desert was amazing. Red dunes and dust as far as the eye could see in vibrant contrast to the azure sky.