Yes! I can confirm that...
I am very very (very very very!) happy to confirm that…
This year, and after many years of not being able to, I will cross the Atlantic. To do this, I will take my favorite excuse: Attending DebConf!
So, yes, this image I am pasting here is as far as you can imagine from official promotional material. But, having bought my plane tickets, I have to start bragging about it ;-)
In case it is of use to others (at least, to people from my general geographic roundabouts), I searched for plane tickets straight from Mexico. I was accepting my lack of luck, facing an over-36-hour trip(!!) and at very high prices. Most routes were Mexico-{central_europe}-Arab Emirates-South Africa… Great for collecting frequent-flier miles, but terrible for anything else. Of course, requesting a more logical route (say, via Sao Paulo in Brazil) resulted in a price hike to over US$3500. Not good.
I found out that Mexico-Argentina tickets for that season were quite agreeable at US$800, so I booked our family vacation to visit the relatives, and will fly from there at US$1400. So, yes, in a 48-hr timespan I will do MEX-GRU-ROS, then (by land) Rosario to Buenos Aires, then AEP-GRU-JNB-CPT. But while I am at DebConf, Regina and the kids will be at home with the grandparents and family and friends. In the end, win-win with just an extra bit of jetlag for me ;-)
I really expect flights to be saner for USians, Europeans, and those coming from further far away. But we have grown to have many Latin Americans, and I hope we can all meet in CPT for the most intense weeks of the year!
See you all in South Africa!
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gwolf 2016-03-26 20:35:31
Visa processing…
Yes, I’ll also have to do the visa thingy, we Mexicans also have to get that sorted. But AIUI, having bought the ticket is a prerequisite for it!
josue 2016-03-26 18:19:42
See you there!
Over the next weeks I’ll be sending my passport to South Africa’s embassy in Mexico to get the Southafrican visa, I’m lucky to be Guatemalian hehe.
Hope to see you there!