Peru Spring 2013 Day 1

I woke up at 4:15am to get everything in order for the trip and we were able to be on our way to Logan by 5:30.  I was dropped off and was quickly able to get checked in to my flights and through security without any issues at all. I chose to just go directly to my gate and start reading The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (one of my favorite authors) until it was time to start boarding.

The flight to Miami was completely uneventful, in fact I was able to sleep through the majority of it. There is something about being on a plane these days that allows me to do that. It was on a Boeing 757 with only main cabin entertainment.  After disembarking I found my gate for my flight to Lima was one gate away at D22 when I exited gate D21.  I had several hours of layover to go though (the  plane landed at 12:15 and boarding wouldn’t start until 3:30pm.  I found a bar/restaurant not too far away called The Island Chicken Grill and sat at the bar and had a couple of Sam Adams and a Caribbean Chicken Platter which consisted of a fairly spicy chicken breast, rice, black beans and plantains (I still don’t like plantains).  During my time at the bar I met a couple from Massachusetts who were heading home after a sport fishing trip down in the keys and a guy who trains customers how to use blood analyzers from his own company. We got to talk training shop for a bit and the medical instrumentation industry in general as well and swapped business cards.  He was an interesting guy.  Also there was a very sad woman who said she was from California but living in Washington DC.  She seemed to have a desperate need for attention and after the guy left I humored her for a few minutes before I had to move on to the gate.  I felt bad for her because she kept interrupting the conversation we were having to try to cry out for attention.  In the very confused conversation I had with her I got the impression she was married several times and I think I understand why.

From there I moved over to the gate for the flight where I started up some of this to have it done before I took off.  The rest of the wait for the flight to Lima was fairly uneventful if a bit long.  We boarded the plane and I got lucky. It was a 767 with 3 areas of seating and I was on a middle section aisle seat with no one next to me. I again slept through most of this flight. I tried the chicken with mashed potatoes dinner and didn’t end up finishing it.  We arrived on time basically and disembarking and going through immigration and customs was easy. Daniela was at the airport waiting for me and we got our transfer to the apartment.  We got cleaned up and went out for a very late dinner which really was just a sandwich (mine was turkey and was very good) and a fresh pineapple juice.

From there we returned to the room and called it a night.

The few pictures from day 1 can be found here.