Our trip was capped off with another memorable experience for me anyway. We did manage to get out of Haiti on an MFI flight to Fort Pierce, and thence on to Miami. The trip wasn't a typical 21st century commercial flight, though. We flew on a 1943 DC3 twin prop aircraft over water for 5 hours with a refueling stop in Exuma in the Bahamas. This aircraft had flown in WW2 and taken part in the Berlin Airlift! Incredible! The cockpit was open for us to visit and photograph, and the crew came back to serve us and chat. Like the MAF pilots we had met in Haiti, these pilots not only volunteer their time, but have paid for their training and often pay more for the privilege of flying for MFI.
In Florida, it was an old pilot who volunteered his time to drive our ragged crew to Miami, a 3 hour drive for us and a 6 hour journey for him! We have met some incredible people on this journey.
Tomorrow we fly to Orlando, the Newark, then home to Moncton, where we'll no doubt have to radidly adapt to the cold and shovel out the car, before driving ourselves the 2 hours home. Patti and Laura leave us here and head back to Ontario. with the rest of us going our seperate ways when we get to Moncton.
Can't wait to see you!
ReplyDeleteGreat job Team 2!!!