Well, I made it here safe and sound! I left Thursday morning and flew from Minneapolis to Dallas. In Dallas, I had a lovely (not) eight our layover until my plane left for Santiago at 930 at night. Well, it was supposed to be 930, but one of the cockpit assistants or flight attendants or something forgot his passport! So everyone on the plane was waiting for about 30-45 minutes after our scheduled departure for his wife to bring his passport. I remember thinking "now if I forgot my passport, the plane wouldn't wait for me." In the end it worked out fine for me though, and i made it through customs and immigration after the plane arrived friday morning ( and after paying a lovely (there is the sarcasm again) $160 reciprocity fee). So far,
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