{"id":3174,"date":"2016-06-14T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2016-06-14T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:34:08","slug":"june-6-2016-d-day-as-in-departure-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=3174","title":{"rendered":"June 6, 2016 \u2013 D-Day, as in Departure Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 6, 2016 \u2013 D-Day, as in Departure Day<\/strong>
\nOne last cr\u00e8me brulee before I go.<\/p>\n

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\nRodrigo caught me at breakfast to say that the flight out of Easter Island might be delayed\u2026 he wasn\u2019t sure. It might be cancelled. He wasn\u2019t sure. Some websites were saying it was delayed, some were saying it was on time. He didn\u2019t know but said we should be picked up to go to the airport at 11:15 AM. So, my final interaction with Rodrigo he was typically vague, unhelpful, and disorganized. That\u2019s how it should be.
\nWe still had some Chilean pesos and thought we should spend them. I mean, otherwise it was essentially wasted money as it wouldn\u2019t be worth exchanging what was left for US dollars. So like a mid-1980s version of Wheel Of Fortune where one had to go shopping with prize money and invariably wound up with a ceramic Dalmatian, we priced out a few trinkets and knickknacks at the local souvenir stands. We wound up buying a set of slate coasters including a birdman drawing as well as a Rapa Nui picture frame with a local artist\u2019s moai drawing in it for the time being (Kim something or other\u2026 you know, the famed Rapa Nui street artist?).
\nAn unexpected short downpour was mitigated by the complimentary hotel umbrellas we fortuitously grabbed on a whim before we left. As we walked back on \u201cmain\u201d street, past the Rent A Car Souvenir stand, we grabbed one last novelty moai photo.<\/p>\n

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\nUpon arrival at the airport, we were informed the flight was in fact delayed by an hour but Mom\u2019s 12:30 AM connection should still be easily made. As I\u2019m sitting on the plane at the moment, I\u2019m one of the last to be served the in-flight meal (Mom WAS the last as they had to heat up more raviolis and that took 10 minutes past the point I got my meal). I am going to make sure Mom boards and takes off. By the time that\u2019s sorted, I\u2019ll only have a few hours before I need to check in for my 6 AM flight, hence I\u2019m forgoing a hotel room tonight. I may regret that later but then again I have several regrets about this trip \u2013 who I booked it with, not standing up sooner to the race director and his organization. But I also have a lot of fun memories, met some new folks, reconnected with some friends, and got to share laughs with my Mom.
\nI\u2019m only going to waste a few more breaths on the shortcomings and disappointments over the marathon tour booking but I\u2019ll save those for TravellingFit directly.
\nFor now, I\u2019m excited at what lies ahead \u2013 Machu Picchu.
\nOnward! Upward!
\nAnd apparently to combat the altitude sickness, I\u2019m supposed to drink cocoa tea, a cocaine derivative that\u2019s perfectly legal in Peru but NOT to be transported back to the United States.
\nAdventures await in the Peruvian jungle!<\/p>\n

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June 6, 2016 \u2013 D-Day, as in Departure Day One last cr\u00e8me brulee before I go. Rodrigo caught me at breakfast to say that the flight out of Easter Island might be delayed\u2026 he wasn\u2019t sure. It might be cancelled. He wasn\u2019t sure. Some websites were saying it was delayed, some were saying it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[422,730,717,682,681,41],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-day","tag-departure","tag-moai","tag-nui","tag-rapa","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}