{"id":148,"date":"2009-12-12T20:23:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/?p=148"},"modified":"2020-06-02T00:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T07:31:38","slug":"argentina-2009-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/2009\/12\/12\/argentina-2009-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina 2009 Day 13: Buenos Aires to Miami to Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday December 12, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flight itself was rather smooth and I slept for most of the 9 hours. We arrived in Miami a mere hour before my flight to LA was supposed to depart, and knowing that I still had to clear customs, it looked bleak. Sure enough, when I went to claim and re-check my bags from customs to my LA flight, the TSA folks told me I had missed the flight and had to rebook my flight. You know it is a common thing since American has a rebook counter just past customs. Thankfully, American had taken care of everything for me and I was rebooked on the 1130 flight to LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having been separated from Mom, I went towards her gate to see if she was on the flight and via text message found out she had already boarded the flight. So I walked back to my terminal and proceeded to get some Pizza Hut and just relax. I found out a bit later that Mom and Gary’s flight had been delayed and they were towed back to the gate. They eventually had to disembark the aircraft and wait in a holding area. I was ready to board my flight and they were asking for volunteers to give up seats for a later flight, but I did not want to take any more chances and decided to stick with what I had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flight back to LA from Miami was pretty good, despite it being on the dreaded 757. My seatmates were pretty chill and I caught myself doing a half dozen or so snore-awakes before I decided to watch the last episode of Michael Palin’s New Europe and Disney-Pixar’s Up on my iPhone. I arrived into LAX about 10 minutes late and Dad was already circling the airport to pick me up, It seemed like there was a lengthy delay in getting my bags, but I was glad that they both arrived safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found out later in the day that Mom did not leave until 4 hours later than originally, and then on a flight to Dallas instead of Chicago. I finally made it home 21 hours after departing the Hilton Buenos Aires. I was glad we took it easy the last day in Buenos Aires, I think it helped me deal with the craziness of the flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus ends another travel chapter! I have no idea when I will be on the road again, hopefully soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday December 12, 2009 The flight itself was rather smooth and I slept for most of the 9 hours. We arrived in Miami a mere hour before my flight to LA was supposed to depart, and knowing that I still had to clear customs, it looked bleak. Sure enough, when I went to claim and re-check my bags from customs to my LA flight, the TSA folks told me I had missed the flight and had to rebook my flight. You know it is a common thing since American has a rebook counter just past customs. Thankfully, American had taken care of everything for me and I was rebooked on the 1130 flight to LA. Having been separated from Mom, I went towards her gate to see if she was on the flight and via […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argentina-2009","tag-argentina2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}