Sunday, May 11, 2008

Free Wireless Internet in the Santiago airport

Overnight flight from San Francisco/LAX to Santiago Chile. Now that I'm here in Santiago, with a 6 hour layover before I head to Antofagasta, I have to say, I'm happily surprised that there's free wireless internet in the airport. That's more than most American airports can say. They'll charge you $10 a minute!

LAX is an absolute pit. Confusing, dirty, poorly staffed, poorly laid out. I consider it the 7 levels of hell...in one location. An example, the security check through point for the int'l terminal looked like the back hallway of a rundown YMCA. Ceiling tiles drooping. Makeshift barriers cracking and peeling, and out of place. One barrier had a hole that had been papered over with paper towel that someone had ripped, so it fluttered in the warm air. Ugh. The line was stretching across the hallway, so they divided it in two, only to have those two lines come together again only 50 feet later. Bizarre.

The flight was nice. Free chilean wine.

Chile is a touch European. They drink capuccino and espresso standing up at wooden bars. Very civilized.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Song that got stuck in my head...

For some reason, in the last week, I can't get enough of this song...