You know that your four month trip throughout South America starts badly when: You have to fly a roundabout way (Philadelphia to Toronto to Lima), your flight to Toronto is delayed and you rush to the gate for your Lima flight, missing it by a measly 10 minutes. It becomes even more interesting when you find out that the next available flight is not until two days later, Thursday the 10th, and for those 2 days you have no idea where your luggage is. It gets a little better when you get to stay with very hospitable family friends in Toronto, but then gets a little worse when you arrive in Lima at 2AM, tired and exhausted, only to realize that your backpack now has a reddish stain from the bottle of wine you brought to
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