The air section of the Chilean trip was full of surprise and last second adventures. We took off out of San Diego on a poodle jumper headed to LAX but the plane was really late. By the time we arrived at LAN Chile’s desk inside Bradley terminal, the airline told us if we had been more 10 more minutes, our tickets would have been canceled.
We loaded onto the airplane and took out of LAX headed fro a 8 ½ hours journey to Lima, Peru. The flight was uneventful and the NEW Lima airport is quite an upgraded to Santiago’s. Stopping in Lima around midnight, we changed planes and flew 3 ½ hours to Santiago. To our surprise LAN Chile had lost 2 out of 4 bags (All the fishing equipment!) and had no idea where it was. We were devastated!
About the only good news about being stuck at the airport for 6 hours until our flight to Southern Chile, was our luggage could maybe catch up with us. We had no sleep for 32 hours but the Pisco Sours were flowing strong as we waited. We boarded LAN again heading to the bottom of the world. (2,000 miles from Antarctica) We stopped in Porte Mott and on to Balcemeda. Balcemeda is an old Chile air force base in no where’s Ville. The good news was our luggage was knocking around Lima for a few hours and got onto the plane we actually flew to Balcemeda. What a relief to find out your gear was found!
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