Zebulon's Jay Estes made it back from volunteering in Haiti in good health and on time.
His wife, Sharon, picked him up from RDU Friday afternoon at 6:30.
He was able to catch a flight out of Port-au-Prince that morning. He reported UPS planes, and military and commercial planes at the airport, and said it was all luck as to which plane you got on in your departure.
Lucky for Estes, he managed the commercial version — appropriately an American Airlines flight to Miami from where he hopped a connecting flight to Raleigh.
Estes got straight to business when he made his way aboard the plane. FOOD. Despite having wheat allergies he refused to turn down the turkey clubs being given out on the flight.
Must have been a comforting return to normalcy from the rice, beans, goat meat and sugar cane diet he acquired in Haiti.
A first hand-description of his experience is set to run in this coming Wednesday's edition of the Eastern Wake News.
