Finally the day of travel has come for this weary but excited future Santiagonian!!! Late this morning, after a tearful goodbye to my mamacita, the travel chauffer, the one and only Bubba Mansour, drove me to the Southwest Florida International Airport...once I got to the airport, I immediately sighted the airliner that would take me to my desination: Air Force One!!! No, Nelly wasn't singing his jam, and I wasn't running around in those super fly tennis shoes...President Obama was giving a speech in Ft. Myers when I arrived at the airport, and so I got to witness the ginornous jet with it's glaring "The United States of America" parked in it's secluded area of the airport. Yeah...I guess I felt pretty cool:) But no, I got you there...no Air Force One for me...I boarded a flight for commonfolk.
After a tearful goodbye to Bubba, I put on my huge traveling backpacking backpack-stuffed to the brink-and went through security. I hopped on the plane, and after a bit of turbulence and a decade of my finger rosary I brought with me, I landed in Dallas! Hallelujah! Now I have only 4 hours left of this eye-opening layover...the terminal that I am camping out in is soley for international flights, and it is unbelievable. Restaurants gallore, a bunch of foreign looking people (I feel like I'm back on USC's campus), and definitely some sketchy people...but all in all it's pretty amazing!
I think the first batch of my fellow CIEE-ers arrive in about an hour or so, so maybe I'll be able to spot them (if they look anything like me, then I know I can look for a glossy-eyed/weary/very excited mix of a person)!
Well well! I have some web surfing to get to, and I have 10 minutes left on my wireless meter!
Adios for now...in 15 hours I'll be in Santiago!
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