It Has Begun

Just had a beautiful flight into Panama City, Panama!  You could see beautiful rainforest, mountains and islands on the flight in.  So pretty. Oh, and it's 90 degrees right now.  Definitely have to plan a trip back where I can actually go outside and enjoy this place. Leaving yesterday was nerve-wracking but very exciting! First off, if anyone is curious, the limit on international luggage (at least with United Airlines) is 50 lbs, not 70 as I found out at the counter.  Not only that, but the extra 8 lbs of luggage I had in the first suitcase alone would cost $200 to send.  Needless to say we got them down to 50 lbs rather quickly. My flight was supposed to take off at 9:05pm and get into Houston around 11:30... however, somewhere in there they had to de-ice the plane and maintenance had to look at the "wank", whatever that might be, and we were an hour and a half late taking off. I was so lucky to have guardian angels named Adam and Kellie (and Taylor too) who picked me up at the airport at 130ish in the morning!  The flight today went off without a hitch though, and Lima will be here in a matter of hours!

Abrazos,

Keeley

Less than a week before take-off!!

Less than a week before take off to Peru!!!! So excited, but there's a few obstacles to maneuver - my flight home from Tucson is cancelled, meaning I won't make it back in time to get the very necessary Yellow Fever vaccination tomorrow.  Once you are vaccinated you receive a yellow card which allows you to get in jungle areas with massive mosquitos and some countries require you to show that card to get in.  Hopefully they have a cancellation in the next couple of days or I'll have to forgo being the first to get chummy with these amazonian folks:


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Smell ya later!
Keeley