Sarah's epic journey to Comodoro Rivadavia began at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday, July 26th. Her flight left Charlotte at 5:30 p.m. and after a stop in Atlanta, she arrived in Buenos Aires at 8:00 a.m. on Monday. Now this is where it got interesting. There are no flights from Buenos Aires to Comodoro from the airport that she flew into. Thus, she had to find a way to another airport 42 kilometers away. Luckily, a customs agent was nice enough to point her to the correct bus. And after an hour bus ride she arrived at the aeroparque correcto with 12 1/2 hours to spare in her lay over!
Meanwhile...Nathanael was making his way north from Comodoro in a helicopter that was being ferried to Brazil, via Buenos Aires. At around 6:00 p.m., he tapped Sarah on the shoulder as she had her nose burried in a Spanish-English dictionary trying to read the local newspaper. The remaining 3 1/2 hours of the lay-over they spent together in the airport over sushi and cerveza. There was one hitch...Nathanael had a ticket in business class and Sarah was in banished to cattle class. Once Nathanael had received his free booze and all other accoutrements, the flight attendants did allow her to rub elbows with those more priveleged (Nathanael was the only person in business class)! We arrived in Comodoro at 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning (which, if we have counted correctly, was 33 hours from the time Sarah left her parents' house in Charlotte)...bluck!!
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