if it isn't one thing, it's another. fate always has a

My wife has traveled internationally for 20 years for work and dealt with all kinds of situations. It seems you just plug yourself into the system and deal with whatever it hands you at the time. Maybe a layover in Paris, maybe bags are a day late, maybe delays. No use getting over-stressed about it. First time I traveled with guns was going to Alaska in 2013. My gun case didn't come off the carousel and I was stressed. Went to Customer Service and told them, she said "oh we don't put gun cases on the carousel, we bring them back here". I looked thru the door, saw my gun case and said "There it is!" Pretty funny looking back. When I went to Colorado for an elk hunt they were holding my case and said to describe it, I told them 'it's a black Pelican case' they said "everybodys got a black Pelican case." Yeah, put a few stickers on there. I put 2 name tags on my gun cases in case 1 comes off.

the flight to Amsterdam to tell them to route their guns and luggage right on to Joburg. A lot less hassle and less chance of them getting lost. Unfortunately I don't know if that is possible on these flights as on my Phoenix flight I am going first to Salk Lake City and then on to Amsterdam, so I don't know if I can tell them in Phoenix to route my gear straight on to Joburg as it isn't a straight flight. I guess I will find out.