We landed last night in Lima, Peru. Three days pretty much gone to waste on an already short vacation. I felt like Tom Arnold on Soul Plane (You won't know unless you've seen it). I'll post pictures later. Anyway, we managed to get off of the plane fairly quickly and headed to the terminal. American Airlines had no idea that we would be arriving and only had one person working the counter to set us up with a taxi and hotel room for the night. Luckily we were very close to the front of the line as there was only one employee working the counter.
We got our vouchers, got in the cab and headed to the hotel. We got a few tips from and old woman who rode in the shuttle with us, and contradicting advice from a younger woman who confirmed what every traveler should already know: there is crime everywhere, just needs to be aware of one's surroundings. The older woman said that we must not read the newspapers. "People get killed over sneakers."
We arrive at Hotel Ibis, highly recommended. It's a new hotel, they were actually in their "soft opening" so the staff was extremely helpful. I hope it stays that way as the hotel was really nice. The room was small, but it had what we needed. Did I mention in an earlier post to remember Peru is on 220v? The hotel staff let us borrow the only converter they had so we could charge our devices.
We walked through the city, not too far from the hotel as we needed to make it back to the hotel where they would take us back to the airport. 2PM. Sure enough, another line. We got our boarding passes and headed to the "soul plane". It took off pretty fast, short taxi and we were in the air (still are, I guess as I'm writing this on the plane).
I am not too religious, but I pray that we can finally land in Buenos Aires, book a hotel, get some rest and start our vacation. I also need to continue planning next month's trip to Alaska. That will be interesting as well.
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