My Travel Adventures

While Air Botswana offers a direct connection between Kasane and Maun (pronounced, as I found out at the Kazungula border crossing, “Maoon”), this flight is not operated every day. With my packed itinerary, I decided I could not wait for the following day to fly, so I opted for a flight from Kasane to Maun with a layover in Gaborone. In the few days leading up to this journey, Air Botswana bombarded me incessantly with announcements of scheduling changes, but the layover time remained more than sufficient at almost five hours instead of the original seven or eight.

There were many things that could have gone wrong today, so I was constantly surprised as good fortune dispelled my paranoia. My friend Yang and I left Oxford at 5:30 in the morning using the rental car Johnny and I had borrowed for our York trip. The day before, Johnny helpfully suggested we park it outside our college in the evening so that we wouldn’t have to walk far the following morning. This plan worked perfectly and helped us avoid rush-hour traffic on the way to Heathrow.