On thing we've found on this trip is that Central Americans like nothing more than a queue. This trend certainly continued into South America as well.
As advised, we got to Bogota airport 3 hours before our flight, and queued, and queued, and queued. A queue for the departure tax exemption, a queue to check in, a queue to get through security, a queue to get through immigration, a queue to get into the departure gate, and then another queue (for good measure) for another security screening (and this time they took my cigarette lighter...) before getting onto the plane. We quite literally used up every minute of the 3 hours. The strange thing was though, we seemed to be the only ones who were annoyed...
After arriving in the states (at Fort Lauderdale) we went through through what seemed like a ridiculous amount of further security, and a million questions about where we've been and what we've been doing, before finally flying to New York, where we got a taxi straight to the apartment in Brooklyn that we'd rented and pretty much went straight to bed.
Over the course of the next week, we did all the touristy things: Statute of Liberty, MoMA, World Trade Centre site, NBC Studios (Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Fallon, and other shows), The Met, etc, etc. All in all, it was an excellent week. That being said, I'm typing this at 7:30am on the morning of our flight home. The last four months have been fantastic, but now it's all over and it's time to go.
In saying that the trip has been fantastic, tipping is one thing that I just can't get my head around; and before any of you (Michael) start the 'tight arse' comments have a look at this...it seems to make sense.
Adios muchachos!
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