South America, Day 21: Buenos Aires, Argentina to San Francisco, CA

So my flight back got cancelled. Without electronics, this was hard to correct; doubly so because United Argentina's number is not 24/7. Luckily, I managed to contact a friend online who agreed to call United on my behalf. Thanks to her help, I got booked onto TACA from Buenos Aires to Lima, and United Lima-Houston-SFO, with the possibility of being upgraded on the latter.

Spent the morning buying an extra book for the flight back and sending off some postcards. Went to the airport three hours in advance (just in case!) and hung out in the Red Carpet Club reading my book while waiting for my (late, of course) plane to Lima. In Lima, I had no United boarding passes, so I had to sit around for a couple hours for the gate to open for my flight to get them - but it was worth the wait; upgraded from Lima to SFO! Dinner in first class was fancy, and surprisingly good:

In Houston, I managed to wheedle my way into the lounge in time to get breakfast before my flight:

And after a bit less than 24 hours of travel, I concluded the South America trip at SFO, five minutes earlier than originally planned thanks to the new routing!