The Flight down to La Paz

November 23 had a shuttle come get me at 5am from Karens house. Karen got up early with me to wait outside so that when the shuttle came i could leave with her my heavy winter coat that I surely won’t need in La Paz. What a good Sister . The shuttle was right on time getting me to the airport well in advance. They stopped me through security because of the brass sailing winch thingy looked just like a small caliber machine gun. At the gate they made me check my carry on because it seemed too big? Glad i did. The flight out of SEA was delayed for unknown reasons. My two hour layover in LAX was more like 20 minutes. All of which i spent running across the parking lot to terminal 2 and running back ad forth looking for gate 28. When i got there they were boarding by sections. I did not know what ‘section’ i was in so i went up and asked. They looked up my name and i was not in the system. They kept asking me if i had another last name. All i could think of was, back at Rose Ave. some would call me Fartley. I didn’t suggest they look me up that way. It took lots of stressful computing, radioing and phoning, but they got me another reservation and tracked down my luggage and got me on the plane in time. It was during this time of running to Terminal 2 that i was happy not to have the carry on bag. For surely i would have been detained as they looked at what looks like a a single handed machine pistol. One of the TSA peeps took me aside anyways to swab my computer, he went as slow as slow can go. I was in the very back of the plane, but had pretty good leg room and a big empty space the side of me. So the flight to Mexico City wasn’t bad at all. Once we landed in MC, things went very smoothly i was quite impressed by how quickly they got people through immigration and everyone was so friendly. I tried to declare my smoked salmon but they could care less, and pretty much just shoed me along. I found the ATM and took out some pesos. Grabbed a sandwich and tasty beer. Indio, which tastes like Heineken. Waiting now for the monitor to let me know which gate i am departing from. No free wifi but i am at a charging station juicing up my phone.