Friday, July 4, 2014

Day 32 Lima to Home

First I am going to go back and update all the days we missed.  We had absolutely terrible internet the last 2 weeks.  Mostly I am updating this so I have a record of what we did, but hopefully somebody else will find it helpful or interesting.

Going back to our trip home...

We got to the Lima airport slightly after 11 pm.  After getting yelled at by the Lan people (very unhelpful airline) and getting my bag completely taken apart at security we were into the terminal where I shopped and Zach sat around until our 1:55 am departure.

The flight was uneventful but not great.  I got stuck in the middle of the middle, but luckily all I wanted to do was sleep.  Breakfast was horrible.  Eggs was the only option and we got served last so we had about 10 min to chow down before we landed.

Zach's covert picture of me getting searched in Lima
Dinky with the nasty expensive nescafe latte and brownie while waiting in Lima

AA breakfast...no option but eggs and no there is nothing else to eat (not even to pay for)

We landed in Dallas around 9 am (somewhat early).  Of course we had to go through customs  there and that was fun.  They have these new machines that scan you passport, takes your picture and sends you on the way unless there were problems.  Zach made it through ok, but I got a big x on my ticket because it only printed one of my last names and then I didn't match their records.  That meant you had to go stand in line with the other rejected people and go through normal entrance procedures.  They claim it is random but I was the only white person in line...  We got separated when this happened and Zach tried to text me where he was going.  He got yelled at and pushed on his way (no you can't go tell you wife where you are going!).  Despite the fun we eventually made it though...they didn't even search our bags which made Zach sad because he could have brought in the coca leaves he wanted.
Dallas starbucks = way better than Peru starbucks

The Dallas airport seemed ok except for the lack of faster healthy food.  I got starbucks for breakfast and we sat in their lounge charging things.  Then we meandered to our gate stopping at Uno pizza for lunch.  That was a truly terrible cheese pizza, but like I said there were not many options.  Final stop was for some underwhelming chocolate frozen yogurt and then we boarded to MSP.  Our flight was delayed supposedly because they had trouble finding a path around the Iowa storms.  Despite the reroute we still hit some pretty bad turbulence.  I can now also confirm that AA doesn't seem to offer any free snacks on US flights.  We got juice and no option for peanuts (even to buy snacks). We landed about 30 min late at MSP and Ethan came to get us.
Welcome home to flooding Minnesota!

Dinky says goodbye until our next travels

That should have been the end of our travel fun, but unfortunately the check engine light started flashing on 494 and we had to stop in the menards parking lot.  We tried putting new gas in and slowly made our way up local streets home.  The car was shaking terribly and threatening to stall the entire time.  We took it in the next day and thankfully it just needed new spark plugs.  Not so expensive and it runs really well now.  I guess the moral of that story is don't let your car sit for 33 days in the sun and flooding rains

Gas light came on on the way home from the airport :-(

 We did finally make it home and after some unpacking and surveying the damage to the garden we ordered pizza luce and called it a night.  I am already thinking about our next adventure so if anyone has suggestions send them my way.
Our collection of stuff from our trip (yes we made the weight limit on the way home)

No comments:

Post a Comment