Monday, January 21, 2019 – Back Home
Dinner service was OK – beet salad to start, we both had salmon for an entrée, and then cheese and ice cream for dessert of which we ate very little. There was a nice Torrontes to go with the meal.
Time for a movie (The Martian) and then some sleep. The seats aren’t full lie-flat style but they are the angled seats with a footrest, like a dentist’s chair. Should be good!
We slept maybe 4 hours before turbulence awoke us at 8:00 Argentina time. We still had 2 hours to go before landing. We couldn’t sleep much more and the turbulence went on so long that they canceled breakfast service! So we were tired and hungry when we landed around 7:45 New York time, though we were quite glad to be there early.
It took a while to find a gate of course, but we were off the plane around 8:05 and through immigration quickly after that. Baggage wasn’t too slow, and we were out by 8:30. I was worried that one of the wine bags looked wet, but it wasn't leaking so no time to stop and check now. We had to step outside for a minute to cross the street for the AirTrain from Terminal 7 and the cold was brutal!
We went to Hertz and grabbed our car, and we were on the road at 9:00. Traffic was great and we stopped for a coffee and snack at a rest area in Westcheser at 9:40 – much earlier than expected. Roads were OK to begin with, but we had a bit of a problem with the rental car in that the windshield washer didn’t work reliably which was a real pain towards the end when we got some road spray. And the E-ZPass tag didn’t work either! But we made it home right at noon. Fantastic time!
The rental car couldn’t get more than one third of the way up our driveway so we carried the suitcases the rest of the way up. And finally, we were home! We checked the wine with some trepidation, but all was intact, miraculously.
After a shower and more coffee, we returned the rental car to the Albany Airport. The return area was a zoo but I made it.
Then we grabbed some Chinese takeout for lunch, and called it a successful trip. Lots of great memories of beautiful landscapes, fascinating geology, great wildlife, and all the little things that Awasi did to make our trip so special. How lucky we were to experience all of this - and to get out of Upstate New York for most of January!
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| On Board AR 1300, EZE-JFK |
Time for a movie (The Martian) and then some sleep. The seats aren’t full lie-flat style but they are the angled seats with a footrest, like a dentist’s chair. Should be good!
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We slept maybe 4 hours before turbulence awoke us at 8:00 Argentina time. We still had 2 hours to go before landing. We couldn’t sleep much more and the turbulence went on so long that they canceled breakfast service! So we were tired and hungry when we landed around 7:45 New York time, though we were quite glad to be there early.
It took a while to find a gate of course, but we were off the plane around 8:05 and through immigration quickly after that. Baggage wasn’t too slow, and we were out by 8:30. I was worried that one of the wine bags looked wet, but it wasn't leaking so no time to stop and check now. We had to step outside for a minute to cross the street for the AirTrain from Terminal 7 and the cold was brutal!
We went to Hertz and grabbed our car, and we were on the road at 9:00. Traffic was great and we stopped for a coffee and snack at a rest area in Westcheser at 9:40 – much earlier than expected. Roads were OK to begin with, but we had a bit of a problem with the rental car in that the windshield washer didn’t work reliably which was a real pain towards the end when we got some road spray. And the E-ZPass tag didn’t work either! But we made it home right at noon. Fantastic time!
The rental car couldn’t get more than one third of the way up our driveway so we carried the suitcases the rest of the way up. And finally, we were home! We checked the wine with some trepidation, but all was intact, miraculously.After a shower and more coffee, we returned the rental car to the Albany Airport. The return area was a zoo but I made it.
Then we grabbed some Chinese takeout for lunch, and called it a successful trip. Lots of great memories of beautiful landscapes, fascinating geology, great wildlife, and all the little things that Awasi did to make our trip so special. How lucky we were to experience all of this - and to get out of Upstate New York for most of January!
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