Trip to Peru - Last day

Our last day in Peru was another bonus day in Cusco. In the morning we went shopping and completed the list of items we wanted to take home, find time to visit a few museums in the center of Cusco and were suddenly caught by a violent rainstorm that gave us little choice, but seek shelter under a succession of shallow entry doors along the narrow streets that were leading back to our hotel.

We were starting to get wet and the steep street were we had found refuge, turned soon into a thundering torrent. When cars passed by they would splash us to a point that we were now totally drenched. With minutes left before our pick-up back to the airport to arrive at the hotel, we ran as fast as we could back to the Quinta San Blas, got towels to dry ourselves, changed clothes and in a matter of minutes were driven to the Cusco airport.

Our plane to Lima was a bit delayed, but we didn't worry much about it, as our layover time before departing to the US was huge! When we got to Lima, we had dinner in a high visibility spot, inside the airport departure lounge, and did as much people-watching as was humanly possible since we had so much time to kill.

By 9:30 pm, we inquired about our flight to Houston, lined up like the rest of the passengers, only to be told one hour later that this flight would be canceled as the aircraft needed to take us back to Texas had to make an emergency landing in Costa Rica.

We were reassigned seats on Copa Airlines between Lima and Panama and a new itinerary was concocted that continued to Houston and Salt Lake, as this happens far too often. We were told that we would be home at 8:30 pm instead of the 1:30 pm we were counting on...

This awful change concluded a long day of varied events that reminded us that air travel is always peppered with all kinds of unpleasant surprises!