Tickets to Chad!

Plane tickets to Chad have been purchased! Here is the schedule as it currently stands (all times are according to the location's time zone):

• Leave Louisville, KY, at 3:20 pm on Jan 7. Fly 1 hour 17 minutes. Arrive in Chicago, IL, at 3:37 pm. Layover: 2 hours 44 minutes.
  
• Leave Chicago at 6:21 pm on Jan 7. Fly 8 hours 19 minutes. Arrive in Paris, France, at 9:40 am on Jan 8. Layover: 6 hours 30 minutes.
  
• Leave Paris at 4:10 pm. Fly 5 hours 40 minutes. Arrive in N'djamena, Chad, at 9:50 pm.
• Probably take a bus from N'djamena to Koumra. Another consultant will be traveling with me for safety reasons. I'll remain with the missionaries there in Chad for nearly a month, and go back to N'djamena by bus or MAF plane.
  
• Leave N'djamena at 11:45 pm on Feb 5. Fly 5 hours 50 minutes. Arrive in Paris at 5:35 am on Feb 6. Layover: 7 hours 20 minutes.
  
• Leave Paris at 12:55 pm. Fly 9 hours 31 minutes. Arrive in Chicago at 3:26 pm. Layover: 3 hours 19 minutes.
  
• Leave Chicago at 6:45 pm. Fly 1 hour 13 minutes. Arrive in Louisville at 8:58 pm.

Total round-trip flight time is 31 hours 50 minutes, plus 19 hours and 53 minutes of layovers. Total with layovers: 51 hours 22 minutes. And that's just the travel to and from N'djamena, not counting the long trips between N'djamena and Koumra! Please pray for good weather and smooth connections at all these places.