Index
Day 1 - Labor Day
Day 2 - Frankfurt
Day 3 - Cape Town
Day 4 - Namibia
Day 5 - Road trip
Day 6 - Namib Desert
Day 7 - Back to CPT
Day 8 - Cape Town
Day 9 - Cape of Good Hope
Day 10 - Groot Constantia
Day 11 - Return
South Africa and Namibia: September 2018
Early afternoon on Labor Day apparently is not a crazy travel time for airports. Both LAX and SFO were pretty slow, which meant plenty of time to relax at SFO and enjoy my first meal of the day. Bun Mee at SFO was decent enough for airport food, and I have to give United some credit-- their cocktails were not only pretty decent, they also made the most of the airplane theme.
Boarding was on time and had an excellent flight crew for the 11 hours to FRA. Zero complaints and zero delays so far!