Arrival

I left from Minneapolis-St. Paul at 3.30 Sunday and it was a very turbulant ride thanks to thunder/lightning storms, but the pilot made it to NY JFK safe and sound, even landing thru foggy weather.

Then I left NY at 11.30 Sunday night, the weather had cleared up just fine. I sat by an older man named Fernando who spoke to me in Spanish (great practice, even if I didn´t understand him over half the time). The flight had tv screens on the back of the chairs, and we got to pick our own movie to watch, but Fernando waited for me to find the same movie he found (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and we pushed play at the same time. It was killer, because I like the movie but have seen it over a dozen times and just wanted to sleep. But I made it.

And arrived in Lima at 7am central time, where it was already 68 degrees! Yay.

The Flight

I hopped on board a 3.00 from Minneapolis-St. Paul that went well until we hit ¨weather¨ in the form of turbulance and a thunder-lightning storm, but after flying around for an extra hour the pilot did havea successful landing thru the fog. Thank you Captain Eric or Aaron.



So then I got onto a 11.30 flight from New York JFK airport to Lima. I sat by a friendly older man named Fernando, who had also come from MN and was returning to one of his homes (¿? we were speaking mostly in Spanish, so I´m not positive, but he´s originally from Lima). Very friendly, talkative, it was great to practice my Spanish and discuss some of Peru with him.



The plane had a great ¨entertainment¨ system, where you could pick (on the screen in front of you, the back of a seat) a movie or show you want to watch yourself, from a list of 60 or so. Fernando found How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days and waited until I found it and insisted I watch it too (it´s a favorite, but I´ve seen it a dozen times already), so we pressed play at the same time and by the end I was dying for sleep but he kept laughing loudly and asking me who I thought would win. What a night. :-)



Anyway, arrived safe and sound to Peru (a balmy 66 degrees at only 7.00am) and bused all the way to Nazca. More on that adventure later.

Leaving

I'm leaving Minnesota because there's too much flooding and snow and cold weather, this spring just isn't following Webster's definition. So today I fly out from Minneapolis to New York, then New York to Lima, arrival time 6.30 am Peruvian time. Then I hop on a bus to go to Nazca!