South America (2005)

December 26th, 2004 (Sunday)

The day had finally arrived!

At 10:00 AM the driver showed up with his van and we were on our way to LAX to catch our flight.

Waiting in the long queue in the American Airlines Terminal we overheard a conversation between one of the attendances and a woman, waiting for a flight to Boston. The lady was way in the back of the queue and needed to catch the flight soon. We offered to help her and let stand her in front of us.

The airline attendant asked us if we heard the latest news: apparently a big earthquake hit South East Asia and several hundreds people were known to be dead.

Once we entered the Passenger Hall we saw again the woman from the queue and she offered to buy us coffee as gratitude toward our deed. We accepted. The lady’s name was Patricia and she told us that thanks to our gesture she was able to catch a flight to New York and from there she was booked on another flight to Boston.

The flight to Miami (Three and a half hours) was pleasant and the connection flight to Buenos Aires (Eight hours) was accommodating as well. We slept most of the way.