On Thursday morning ArcticTropic boarded SAA 204 from JFK New York to JNB Johannesburg, South Africa.

For the next 15 hours, snugly in Seat 52A ,lots of reading was accomplished. There’s not much to see as the flight is almost entirely over water. Some lights were seen below a gigantic thunderstorm in the middle of the night over Liberia,Guinea, or Sierra Leone. The last 2 hours is over Namibia, Botswana and then South Africa.

African Sunrise.

Southern Hemisphere Spring. THe temperature was only a few degrees warmer than chilly New York, but the foliage is very different,
More photos to follow as I am returning to the airport to fly to Windhoek,Namibia.