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SA Cruise

I know, I know! I haven't posted for a long time. And even though this is by now very dated, here is my report on our SA trip. We departed from LAX on LAN Chile for Lima, Peru and then on to Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was lucky, sort of. I requested an emergency exit seat because of the extra leg room. But the seating diagram at the ticket counter didn’t show the bulkhead for the lavatory. Our lay-over at Lima dispelled any notion that I might have had about Peru being a third world nation. Now, I must admit that an airport terminal probably doesn't represent the entire country. The terminal was as modern and as clean as any I have seen in a long time. They even had WiFi. Another unexpected surprise: Lima was very humid. I then realized that Lima was nearly at sea-level and fairly close to the ocean. I had erroneously thought that it was high in the Andes. We finally were awakened in preparation to land in Buenos Aires. IT was now about 9:00 am local time. The weather was so