Lima to Miami to St. Louis to Home Sweet Home

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until they come home and rest their head on an old familiar pillow - Lin Yutnag


Ok, we made it back to beautiful, wonderful Seattle where the air is rich with Oxygen. Altitude is an interesting experience. So far we can still deal with it. Best to go back to Tibet soon I figure. I hate waking up in the middle of the night having a strong desire to take a very deeeeep breath.

On Monday May 5th, we had a 2:00 a.m. wake up call to head to the Lima airport for an early flight to Miami FL. Very nice, well organized, user friendly airport. Better than some we have flown out of in eastern Europe. Sad to say that the flight was a half-hour late. That is a big deal when you get up at 2:00 a.m. Also, since we purchased a bottle of the primary ingredient to our new favorite drink, the Pisco Sour, we had to check our luggage. We don't usually check our bag unless the flight attendent is having a bad day and snags our bags. Its happened once or twice, this time we checked bags with malice and forethought. AA flight 2110 was not a full flight and we noticed that the gentleman a seat over from us was taking some pretty healthy pours out of the bottle he had in his "duty free" bag. Maybe he was afraid of flying or needed an early morning bracer. After about 2 or 3 "pours", he fell asleep for most of the 6 hour flight. The flight attendents seemed happy to leave him in La-La Land. That was a first time experience even for us. Lima to Miami was a nice quiet flight. We saw the Panama Canal along the way (new trip destinations abound).

Next stop was Miami and after we cleared "migration", got luggage, passed thru customs, rechecked luggage and got to the gate - our plane to St. Louis was boarding. That was the last confirmed sighting of our bags. Miami to St. Louis was a nice quiet flight.

Next stop was St. Louis. I didn't manage to see the Arch from the plane. Had lunch at a fine airport lunch place. Got to the gate just in time to hear "John Ott please come to the podium"...... I'M NOT GOING WITH OUT MY MR. OTT, I'm thinking. Seems that they needed his seat so a family could sit together. But he IS still flying with me. For some Karmic Reason, I'm the one who ended up sitting next to the 4 year old who never slept the whole trip and really was into turning my reading light on and off for the whole 4 hours....... very cute kid and her mother was totally stressed after hour #1. I felt really bad for all parents who travel with small children. Strapping a 4 year old in an airplane seat and having it go well ain't going to happen. St. Louis to Seattle was not a quiet flight.

So finally, we arrive in Seattle at about 9:30 p.m. on Monday May 5th. Our luggage, which we usually never check, arrived on Tuesday after a fun filled side trip to Dallas.

We had a most wonderful time. If you get a chance to visit to either the Galapagos Islands or Peru -GO, GO, GO. Life is short.

You can see some "selected" photos at http://johnott283.fotodock.co.uk/

It was a good trip.....

Over and out till the next one.