Jorge Chávez International Airport is not a fun place to be, especially after midnight when you’re leaving Peru but your flight back to Houston has been delayed yet again. But my delay at Lima’s airport gave me a few minutes to reflect on my recent trip abroad, and especially on a few things that I very much know to be true.
- A country cannot be truly free until its people can print out airline boarding passes from home.
- If my mother starts running at the sight of someone, you should start running too.
- Wherever your are, the drivers are worse than wherever you just were.
- There is nothing more arbitrary in this world than airport taxes.
- If you are on a historical tour, and your tour guide is not speaking in his/her native language, the truth will become slightly more malleable.
- It is difficult to trust anyone who packs more than 50 lbs. of luggage for a vacation to anywhere short of Antarctica.
- The same holds true for those who refuse to turn off their phones in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
- The number of crying children on your plane varies directly with the length of your flight.
- It actually kind of helps to smile while you’re getting screwed.
- Luxury is a very, very relative term.