Friday, July 4, 2014

Venezuela: Caracas and Flight Out


Despite getting in fairly late, I couldn’t sleep in in the morning and got up early and enjoyed a morning relaxing in her hammock, catching up on planning the next leg of this life journey, and enjoying an amazing brunch cooked by both Christina and Tracey. Other activities of this most relaxing day included walking up to Tracey’s school and meeting her coworkers, doing a 30 minute power/cardio workout with Christina, doing laundry (yay!!), avoiding tragedy with a small natural gas explosion, cooking an amazing dinner, enjoying dinner with a couple bottles of wine and champagne, and staying up talking until late into the night (before our 6am flight…).

With a couple of hours of sleep, we show up at the airport to find an impressively long line to check into our flight (unsurprising at this point). We waited in line for a solid 1.5hrs being entertained by the absurdity of the process and a small child (<2yrs old) playing soccer with his father. In fact, our check-in line moved so slowly that they ended up delaying the take-off of the plane because of it. Mind you, this is the first plane of the morning…I can’t imagine what the trickle down effects were. So, arriving in Panama City, while I was just in time to catch my connection to Los Angeles, Christina and Susan were not so lucky and completely missed their connecting flight. Sigh. One last present from the transportation system of Venezuela…



Considering the bottles of wine and the early flight, most of my flights were spent leaning against the window, probably snoring, and recovering from the epic journey that just happened…

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