My long trip to Lima.

Lima, the only coastal capital city in south America was the venue for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s two day International Seminar on SME Policies and Practices to Promote the use of ICT.

It took me more than a day to arrive in Lima.
From Manila, I boarded a plane to Tokyo on Sunday, 8am. In Tokyo, I deplaned then after almost an hour reboarded the plane to New York. 17 hours of total flying time so far.

I arrive in New York’s JFK airport at 3pm, Sunday. My flight to Lima isn’t until 12:30am of Monday, so I claim my bags, clear US Customs then take the Airtrain to terminal 4. There I check in my luggage with LAN Airlines, get my boarding pass and head towards Manhattan.

I took the Subway from the Jamaica station to Lexington ave, since I was meeting a friend at 50th st and 2nd ave. I get there by 6pm. We have dinner at the Smith restaurant and kill time till it’s time to catch a cab back to the airport. I leave at 10 pm to get to JFK at 10:35.

TSA security check, then I wait by the gate . Get informed that our flight is delayed to 10:25 am. We’re sent to nearby hotel for the night.

The next day, all goes smoothly and I board the flight to Lima. After 7 hours, I arrive in South America.

Local time was 6pm, Monday October 25. Finally.