Heading Home From South America

Monday Jan. 13, 2014

We did get out of Iguazu at about 1:30 am or later which was about an hour late. It seems it was a luggage handlers' strike so that could definitely be a problem.

We did get into Buenos Aires and that flight was delayed which was good. We went through security again and got to our gate and went through security once more but this time it was hand searched. When they did the hand search, they took my Purell, which I carried through the whole trip until now. There is to be no alcohol products and Purell contains alcohol. That took time and we did not leave until after 5 am. That means we should get into Miami about 12 noon or after since this is about a 9 hour flight and a time change. We went through immigration with no problems but the luggage was really, really slow. We must have waited for at least 40 minutes to an hour. Miami seems very disorganized. We then finally got our stuff and needed to get to the American ticketing area in the domestic terminal. This airport stretches for miles so that was a definite problem. We hustled through the controller and then after a lot of walking got to the American ticketing in terminal D. We used the kiosk to check in and we will make our flight. It is a good thing we had a later flight since we certainly did not have an excess amount of time to spare since we had to go through security once again. What a mess. We are not checking our luggage on this flight but we didn't really have a choice from Iguazu. Here the luggage actually fits. The foreign flights are not as friendly to carry-ons that are bigger than a purse.

I had the pre-check through security but Walt did not. I went through the fast check but I was the random person who had to have my hands checked with their little wipe down. I did have to wait a little longer for Walt, but not too much longer. The guy who was doing my pre-check said he would put Walt in a shorter line and he did. I had the liquids so that made it a little faster anyway.


We got back into Orlando late afternoon of Monday Jan. 13 after being on a plane and being up almost 2 days. We are weary but glad to be home. I will write a post of our favorite things in a few days.