This trip started 3 years ago- March, 2020. I got through the Bolivia the Bolivia pre-trip and then we were sent home as country after country started closing its borders. Bolivia closed its borders 2 days after we left! Well, I loved Bolivia and got a generous refund for the travel company but was grateful to be able to resume the trip now.
It's a long way from Kansas to Lima.
Since I had a 5:15 AM flight to Miami I spent the night at a hotel near the Kansas City airport. It would have gone well except that the 9-year old laptop I'd brought with me because it was smaller and lighter, and carefully loaded up with mission-critical files and gotten up and running a few days before, died. Apparently (using my phone to investigate the problem) it required an updated visual display driver which in turn required a Windows update not possible on my "antique" device. Well, so much for taking notes, backing up photos, etc.- I was reliant on an iPhone and a Nook tablet.
I had 5 hours in Miami but that was OK- I had lounge access, did a lot of walking for exercise and bought some very good scotch (Benriach) at the Duty-Free shop. Soon it was time to take off for Lima.
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| Landing in Lima |
This part about getting from the airport to the hotel always goes awry. (I make my own flight reservations so the tour company doesn't arrange airport pickup.) Well, I'd managed on my own in India and Albania when the promised driver didn't show up. This time I used a company at the airport recommended by the guide.
I showed the dispatcher my address. 55 soles (about $13), she said. Driver gets in the car, asks where I’m going, He looks it up, says it should be 10 soles (about $2.70) more because it’s in Miraflores, not central Lima. He had to get the dispatcher out with her machine to run a new charge for 65. Oh, and he didn’t speak English. Glad I could decipher his Spanish.
Fortunately we arrived at a decent hour at a very nice hotel and I was soon settled in.
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