A Not-so-Wonderful Welcome Home

Our stop-over in Auckland proved a trial, over 4 hours long and with the announcement that for some strange reason which didn't make any sense at all, 100 pieces of luggage were offloaded from the plane to be sent on a later flight - of course when we arrived in Brisbane we discovered that ours was amongst those left behind. Next came a taxi ride through drenching rain with a cabbie who spoke an unidentifiable language and needed directions to get us to our car which we had left with Max's parents.

It made us laugh to think that in all our travels through Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru we didn't have one hiccup with luggage or taxi's in places that we had read so many stories of delays and rip-offs.

But...

It was lovely to see Len and Dulcie looking so well and 24 hours after leaving our hotel in Santiago we walked through our front door to discover a beautiful card and a bunch of flowers on the table from Pauline and Graeme.

there is no place like home.

P.S.  our luggage arrived about 13 hours later!