Guess who is sleeping?

So, Arn said he was not blogging and someone is sleeping. Who is sleeping? It has been a maddening day. Our missing bag reached the "sort" scan last night. This means TSA approved the empty, brand new gas can and the stove (that Arn burned the gas until gone) and they okayed the leather man tool. Still, they didn't put it ON the plane last night. Tonight, it has been scanned for the flight. Good news? Someone had laid their hands on that bag today. Bad news -- "it has been scanned for the flight but it doesn't mean it will be on the flight". Argh.... We will only know it's whereabouts in the morning after the flight arrives in Santiago and the bag is not claimed. As a process engineer, this stuff drives me insane. If FedEx had this failure rate and type of tracking, they would be out of business.

Yes, it had been a long day. Arn is exhausted after no sleep on the flight last night. He quickly took inventory of what he was missing in the MIA bag. His peak frustration occurred around lunch time. I was a bit slower. It wasn't until dinner time that I clued into the location of the first kit and foot care kit ---- some f&$@ing place in Atlanta!!! After a great dinner at Las Vacas Gordas(fat cows--yes we had steaks) with pisco sours and a very nice Chilean wine (and speech about improving our attitudes for two people with no tent and a woman with no cold weather clothing) I returned to the room to discuss such fine topics as "chain of command" and "escalation process" with Delta Airlines. Weary Arn had this to say -- "they changed the status of the bag and this must be good". Clearly he is very tired. I am left awake wondering --- how do you ask for the contents of my first aid kit and repair kit in Spanish? And do they have "primaloft and hydroskins" in Santiago?

Good night! Hasta mañana.