You gotta go with the flow I guess

Monday, November 5th

Just a short one for today. It’s a travel day which is supposed to be non-eventful, right? Not so much.

I guess when you have 10 flights in 12 days you gotta expect it’s not all going to go right.

Despite assurances from the South American office for Wing Buddy that we would be on the same flight as the rest of the group even though our documents showed otherwise, Nanci and I ended up on a different flight from El Calafate to Buenos Aires and then Buenos Aires to Iguazu than the rest of our tour group today. And our flights were delayed. So we ended up spending 4 hours at the airport in El Calafate which has a grand total of one coffee shop after you’re through security. Thankfully it’s a nice one and we had a view looking over Lago Argentina from our comfortable chairs by the window. However, 4 hours is a long time. And there was chaos in the boarding area because the airline was having so many mechanical problems the flights were backing up. Really didn’t give one a bunch of confidence!

Finally we got off the ground and while in-flight Nanci had the great idea to get ourselves closer to the front of the plane for a fast get away upon landing and successfully talked the flight steward into it. He agreed to move us to the exit rows which were empty. But still we were literally running to catch our connection in Buenos Aires and if it weren’t for Nanci’s quick thinking and the kindness of a Spanish speaking passenger disembarking with us to help us navigate through the right security line to get to the gate for our flight I don’t think we would have made it. Thank you to that person and I have one huge kindness to pay forward for sure.

So instead of arriving at Iguazu at around 6 pm we got here at 9 pm. I’ve never been so glad to see my luggage come off the carousel in my life. The other group were delayed somewhat by the airline chaos as well, but arrived around 8 pm.

This would be the adventure part of travel.

The famous Iguazu Falls is tomorrow and apparently there is a high flow right now. Not sure if that’s good or bad.

Anyway, we’ll find out tomorrow.