TAMMIETHESSING: Are we there yet????

Lee and I (isn't this is how I always start out a post?) attempted to fly standby to Lima, Peru recently. Let me tell you, I have seriously spent more time in an airport than I have my home this month. So, our flight to Atlanta, we BARELY made. ATL is the devil, by the way. I always have to fly in there to get anywhere and I always get stuck there. The Atlanta Peeport, as I call it because, it smells like, well, I think you get my point. Anyhoo - poor Lee had to ride in the cockpit all the way there, but his sacrifice allowed a lady the chance to get back home because she would've been bumped had he opted for a seat:)
So we get to A town around 11 AM and our flight to Lima isn't until 5:50PM - 25 overbooked, by the way. Needless to say, we were bumped, along with 15 other passengers. So we get listed on a flight into Santiago, Chile. at 10:50PM we roll out of ATL ...

Excuse me mr. pilot ... do you have room for us????

We arrive in Chile at 7:30ish. And the Lan Peru employees (who don't speak any English, other than "no room") were a joy. Well, despite their "no room" theory, by the grace of God, there was room. There's a lesson to be learned here ... don't take no for an answer ... especially if it's in Spanish. So we made the flight into Peru after purchasing stand by tickets ... arriving in Lima just before noon.

After we survived the taxi ride (almost as bad as Jamaica, but not quite) ...

GORGEOUS!