How long does it take to get to Haiti?

For as otherworldly as Haiti seems, it really isn't that far away.  Our team of 12 had a ride to O'Hare airport in a chauffered school bus, where we boarded a flight for Miami.  On the way to Haiti, we spent the night in Miami and took a very early flight to Port-Au-Prince the next morning.

The flight from Miami to Port-Au-Prince is about an hour and 40 minutes.

The drive from Port-Au-Prince to anywhere else in Haiti is both long and treacherous.  The streets are paved and mostly in good shape, but they aren't laid out well for travel.  Roads are paved and built as two lanes, but drivers, motorbikes and a constant throng of people who walk everywhere makes for slow going.  P-A-P traffic jams make our U.S. travel stories look like a piece of cake.  Distance-wise, we were traveling about 130 miles or so, but it took us 6 hours by bus.

On the way back, we did all travel in a single day and bus to P-A-P to Miami to Chicago took over 16 hours.

Below, a shot of the P-A-P airport.