Monday, January 5, 2015

The Adventure Begins

So this trip has been along time coming and it has finally arrived. After so much anticipation and hoopla, it didn't have the best of starts. On the way to the airport the nervous finally got to me and I puked in the cell phone parking lot at Sea-Tac. After that I felt much better and said my final goodbyes to my dad and brother, got checked in, through security in no time and caught my first flight with no problems. So here's where the plan started to go wrong. The plan was to fly to Denver have an hour and a half layover, from there to Miami for a two and a half layover and then on to Quito. But that's not exactly how it work out. In Denver I had to go recheck in and was informed after waiting in line for the whole hour and a half layover that I would be going through Dallas Fort-Worth on the way to Miami, which would get me into Miami to late for my flight to Quito. After finally getting my boarding passes for my next flights I had to run to the flight barely making before they closed the door. With that flight being delayed because of having to rebook everyone on different flights I missed the flight that the lady tried to book me on from Dallas to Miami so I could make the Miami to Quito flight. So I had to take another that the airline screwed up again due to all the people that got rerouted through Dallas, but it was kind of cool watching a huge lightning storm over the Gulf of Mexico from above was pretty awesome. After all this I ended up having to take a flight that got me into Quito after 9pm. This was probably the coolest flight of the four, I watch Havana Cuba as the sun went down over the horizon, followed by Panama passing bellow us before climbing even higher up and into the Andes Mountains and into South America. Exhausted and ready to collapse I finally made it to Quito to find out my back missed more connecting flights then I did and wouldn't show up till the next day. So to tired for an hour cab ride into town and to my host families place, I caught a cab to the closest hotel that wasn't a hole in the wall. The next day I caught a cab into the city, on some of the twistiest bumpiest roads I have ever seen, thinking the whole time that these would be great for some kind of rally style car. Now actually among Spanish speaking Ecuadorians I have felt extremely cut off, but being eased a little by some of the fellow students and learning Spanish more and more. On the plus side my bag finally showed up two days after I did and I can put on some clean cloths and charge my laptop.
 Tried to catch the lightning storm over the Gulf
Sunset over Cuba

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the blog. We are all so excited about hearing about your adventures. I think this will be great!!

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