Travel Itinerary... let the adventure begin!

The adventure has begun! I'm sitting on the floor in terminal 4 at JFK after a successful first flight. I can't get through security to the pretty part yet because my airline isn't awake or on the board to tell me my gate number.
So, I'll take this moment to write my itinerary:
10/3/12 9:00pm... SFO -> JFK... Good bye Pacific.
10/4/12 11:15am... JFK->JNB... Johannesburg, S. Africa
10/5/12 10:00am... JNB->TNR... Antananarivo, Madagascar

This is where I will meet Sandrine, my travel companion for 25 days in Mada. She is a French woman with an Australian accent. I answered her post, on the Lonley Planet Travel Forum, for a person wanting to share the cost of a car and driver to travel the southern national parks and take photos of wildlife. Where do I sign??? She has an itinerary that I'm happy to follow. I haven't had any time to research but I'm pretty sure I'll be seeing lemurs and baobobs. She's done this before, in other regions of Mada, so I trust it's going to be great! I'm also hoping to do some diving and snorkeling.
So, after 2 days of travel, I will put my best self forward and hope she doesn't run for the hills.

11/1/12 TNR->DUR... Durban, S. Africa

This is where I meet Lisa and Pamela.  Lisa I know from volleyball in Santa Cruz. She is doing amazing things for AIDS orphans in Pretoria. Pamela is Lisa's friend. I haven't met her yet. We will be driving Lisa's truck, Benny, north from Durban along the east coast of S.A., through Swaziland and into Mozambique. We'll go as far north along the coast as we have time for. We're going to snorkle with whale sharks. Yes we are. Lisa has been researching our trip. Once again, I'm happy to tag along on someone else's itinerary.

11/21/12 JNB->CPT... Cape Town, S. Africa

Pamela and I are going to fly to Cape Town to check it out.  I'm looking forward to seeing penguins.  Once again, I haven't researched it. Are you sensing a pattern?

11/25/12 CPT->JNB->SEZ... Seychelles

I fly from Cape Town back to Johannesburg to meet David for our flight to Seychelles! After 6 weeks apart, it will be a great airport reunion. I've wanted to go to Seychelles since about 9th grade, ever since I met a guy named Ciye, who had parents that liked to cart him off to tropical diving paradises.  We are staying on Praslin and plan to hike, snorkle and dive. We will likely take a boat to several of the surrounding islands.  La Digue is an island that boasts the world's most photographed beach.  I'll make sure to post a photo.

12/7/12 SEZ->JNB... unfortunate idle time in Joburg.
12/9/12 JNB->LVI... quick trip to Victoria Falls and Chobe NP
12/13/12 Borneo by way of Singapore, Malaysia
12/30/12 SIN->BKK... Singapore to Bangkok, Thailand
??? about a month later... Western Australia
2/28/13 return to San Francisco (or sooner, or later)

Happy trails on your own brand of adventure!