South America to Germany... 6,500 miles

Sorry for the delay Melissa... here are your updates ;). To those who don't know Melissa, she is the gate keeper of my journal. On my first trip to Europe I would tear pages from my journal and send them to her as updates and for safe keeping. I think she still has them and has refused to hand them back over! Anyway...

From Tarapoto I had a 3 hour flight to Lima which layed over in Iquitos, spent a few hours in the airport doing some work while I waited for my flight . Leaving Lima on an overnight flight (6.5 hours) I arrived in Houston around 6:30 am. I decided to rent a car for the 10 hour layover to run some errands and just get out of the airport. Found myself a walmart, picked up some new sunglasses (lost mine the first day in Peru) and a duffel bag to repack my carry on luggage which I then shipped home (holy reminiscent hell Rachelle!).

With hours to spare I decided to check out downtown Houston. Stopped at the Spaghetti Warehouse for some lunch. I picked the place simply because there was parking available and thought a salad would be a sure thing. Mind you I hadn't had serious fresh veggies in almost 3 weeks. The restaurant did not open for another 10 minutes but the woman let me use the restroom where I washed my face and brushed my teeth. Ah the simple things in life! Turns out this was THE restaurant to be at! When I came out of the restroom there entire lobby was FULL...and even better the meals came with bottomless salad and delicious hot brown bread loaves! Heaven. I ate 2 full plates of salad and took my veggie lasagna to go. Back to the airport and Munich here I come!!



Luftansa is one of the BEST airlines hands down. After my miserable experience with Continental even just adequate would have done, but Luftansa never fails to impress me. Above average meals, first class service in economy and one of the few airlines to still serve free alcohol on international flights! woo hoo! I was on a double decker plane with some 100 American hormonally imbalanced highschool students. So I ate, had a couple glasses of wine, put my head phones in and relaxed for the 10 hour flight to Frankfurt. A quick layover and another Luftansa flight to Munich.

I dont know if it is age or the fact that I spent two straight days on planes, but I had my first case of cankles! My hands and feet were so swollen it looked like I had overfilled sausages for toes and I could barely bend my calves the skin was so tight. GROSS!