Odometer: 22552 steps (I wonder if the turbulence affected the reading...)
My flight from Austin to Lima (Austin to Dallas, Dallas to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale to Lima, travel time: 17 hours) took off at 6:45am. I was on my way, and looking the part. My bag ended up weighing 28 lbs, not too bad. The plan was to meet my friend Sterling (who was coming to travel in Peru with me) at baggage claim since his flight landed 10 minutes before mine. It ended up being an hour late. When he finally got in, we went to claim his bag, and it was a no show. Apparently it was still in Newark, New Jersey. By the time we finally got all of that mess handled, it was about 1:30 at night. Finally got a taxi back to the hostel and knocked out. Today we spent wandering around Lima, exploring the Miraflores district and trying to track down Sterling´s bag. We are on a 5:30pm bus tomorrow to Cusco (17 hours) for the Machu Picchu trek. Hopefully he gets ahold of it before then. He might get a bit unpleasant smelling on a four day hike with one Tshirt and no toiletries.
Before I left I had a few friends tell me that Mariel is a very common Latin American name...for men. Apparently for hotels, too.
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what were you doing at a hotel? had i known you would be near one of those i mighta tagged along... haha uh and if it make you feel any better about having a man name, when i went snowboarding i got called 'bud,' 'buddy,' 'dude,' and such by the people that work there.. a bit awkward but whatever.
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