Travel (un)luck strikes again

27 November, Saturday; Nairobi, Kenya. Many folks know about the bad luck that Ben and I have with travelling. So far the honeymoon has been going well. So far. We arrived in Nairobi to find that our bags were nowhere to be found. Huge bummer. Not so much because I’m stuck with one outfit and no toiletries for the night. A huge freaking bummer because we are supposed to leave on our safari tomorrow morning, way before the bags would even arrive and it’s not like South African Airways is going to bring our bags to our campsite in Uganda. We’re both trying to contemplate how we can get by on the trip with what we have --- impossible. We’ll definitely need to go buy some stuff and it’s not like there is a shop next to our basic campsite tomorrow. Although we can surely buy the basic necessities somehow, we’re both really wanting our stuff. We both signed up for camping for our honeymoon, knowing that we were going to see some amazing places and the lower cost allowed us to travel for a longer time. Bringing some creature comforts was another way to make it a little more tolerable. I mean, come on, 17 days of camping is A LOT of camping. Our North Face Cat’s Meow sleeping bags, our pillows, comfy clothes that fit and our lovely Arcteryx jackets and rain coats. And my yummy-smelling toiletries that make camp showers a little more tolerable. We’ll find out more tomorrow once we talk with our guide, but in the meantime we’ve hatched an intermediate plan. Right now we think that we’ll hang out here and hope our bags are on the 2pm flight from Johannesburg. Ideally, we’ll pick up our bags from the airport and high tail it to our first campsite in a taxi. $106 seems like a more than reasonable cost for some comfort. Now, if the bags aren’t there tomorrow, that’s another story and I’m trying hard not to think about it too much. At least it was both of our bags. It lends credence to the likelihood that our bags just didn’t make the connection in JNB. At least we’re both in this together. It is a honeymoon after all. Hey, it’s just not an adventure without a story like this, right? Or is that just what we tell ourselves when life throws us a crappy situation? In the mean time, here is everything we own apart from the clothes on our backs. Who said this girl can’t travel light??