Waiting for Sam's Arrival

Sunday morning and it's only 6:09am,  my first thought of the day, "why am I awake?" My second thought of the day, "I'm too excited to sleep!" Sam boards a plane today, to fly to JFK international airport followed by a flight to Dubai, then to Johannesburg, South Africa where he will take yet another plane, this time only an hour, to Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. He will arrive at 8pm Monday night, so if my restless, disorienting excitement starts now I have a long 38 hours to go.