Sunday

Travel Day!

After spending the night in our original hotel, we had a nice breakfast, worshiped together and got on our bus for the airport.  It's about 45 minutes from San Salvador to the airport.

One unique thing about the airport in San Salvador was that there was security screening both coming into the general gate area, and also at each specific gate.  So, if you purchase water or soda at an airport news stand or gift shop - drink it before the gate area!

Everything went smoothly and pretty much on schedule.  Getting through customs in Atlanta was mostly uneventful.  It was a new experience for some to have to reconnect with their luggage in the middle of a multi-leg flight.  It must have been a relatively slow fly day, because lines were pretty short and efficient.

We said "good-bye" to our two Wisconsin travelers.  They were amazing young ladies who found our trip independently through the Habitat website.  Ours was an "open" group, and these adventuresome women decided to risk traveling with a group of completely unknown people (mostly Bears fans) in order to work with Habitat International.

The flight from Atlanta to Moline, for me, was marked by a "chasing north" of the sunset.  In El Salvador, because it is so close to the equator, the sun rises and sets at about 6 am and 6 pm each day regardless of the season.  It was odd for us, for this week in the midst of what are usually the longest days of the year, for us to only have 12 hours of daylight.  So, as we flew from  Atlanta to Moline, we kept just ahead of us, a little bit of dusk, which set just before we landed, back home, safe and sound.