huntaholic
AH senior member
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2017
- Messages
- 90
- Reaction score
- 130
- Location
- Mid Michigan
- Media
- 55
- Member of
- NRA, Ducks Unlimited. Whitetails Unlimited, Michigan Sportsman
- Hunted
- South Africa Eastern and Western Capes
As I prepare to embark on my second trip to SA, I am reminiscing through my 12 day hunting trip in 2014. Many of you have asked me to do a report of my first trip, so as my second trip is about 3 days from departure I have put this together. Our trip started off with a big delay when we boarded the plane in Detroit, took off, circled Detroit for a while then returned to the airport. Captain came on the speakers and said they were having some issues with the deicing equipment so they were going to return to the gate and have the mechanics check thing out. After about an hour and a half the captain said they got the issue fixed and we were clear to take off. Having about a 5 hour layover in DC it didn’t seem to be that big of an issue. Well we taxied to the runway only to sit there for about 30 minutes with no information. Finally the captain said they were still having issues and they were heading back to the gate. Once we got to the gate they told us they were going to unload the plane this time as they worked on it. The time was now around 3pm and our connecting flight to Johannesburg was to depart around 7. To make a very long story short we ended up making several calls and spent hours getting our trip rescheduled for the next day to depart from DC. The company we were hunting with in SA was more than understanding and made arrangement to extend out trip for the extra day. At 1 am United Airlines finally put us up in a hotel in Detroit for a few hours as we had to be back at the airport at 430 am for our flight. We made it to the hotel just in time for the captain to buy us all a drink and we all bought a round and just stayed up, took a quick shower and headed back to the airport.