{"id":8801,"date":"2015-05-19T10:33:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2015-06-03T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:25:31","slug":"midnight-flight-to-lima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=8801","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Flight to Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tuesday, May 19, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I look out of the small window into the darkness of the airport. The time was midnight and the plane was still sitting at JFK airport plugged into the terminal. I&#8217;m on my way to Peru to finally see the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu. The Lost City of the Incas has been on my bucket list for almost fifty years, but I was too tired to be excited. In eight\u00a0hours, I would be in the capital city of Lima.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jeff joined me for this adventure but when the car service to take us to the airport was twenty minutes late, he looked as if he was having second thoughts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our driver to the airport, Roberto, was a pleasant young man who coincidentally was Peruvian. He apologized for being late and gave us a thorough introduction to his country during our ride to JFK. We learned about Peruvian food, especially\u00a0<i>cuy,<\/i> the Spanish word for\u00a0guinea pig,\u00a0and other tasty dishes. Roberto also recommended <em>ceviche,\u00a0<\/em>raw fish marinated in lime juice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I told Roberto\u00a0we had planned to arrive\u00a0a day before our tour group to see the sights on our own. He said\u00a0we should stay\u00a0in the Miraflores neighborhood of our hotel because downtown Lima could be dangerous for tourists. At the airport, Roberto wished us well and assured us we would enjoy our visit. He gave us his email in case we had any questions or problems. He said he had cousins who &#8220;spoke English and were nice people to help us if we got into any trouble.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fortunately, Jeff fell asleep after we boarded and didn&#8217;t notice that the plane was still on the ground an hour after it was supposed to take off. Undaunted and filled with curiosity and anticipation, I tried to sleep on the long bumpy flight to South America and <em>cuy<\/em> country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sunrise in South America:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_26331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8878\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_26331.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2633\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, May 19, 2015 I look out of the small window into the darkness of the airport. The time was midnight and the plane was still sitting at JFK airport plugged into the terminal. I&#8217;m on my way to Peru to finally see the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu. The Lost City of the Incas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}