Last minute run-ins.

One last post before I head out. I still can't believe that I'm heading to South America in 5 hours. Its quite surreal.

Had a minor freak out with timing already. I ran out to run some very last minute errands (clearly I'm still not ready!) and I return to my car only to find two cop cars sitting in front of my car. I overhear the officer say something to the guy in the back seat along the lines of that isn't your car and where is the evidence that you own this car. So I'm guessing this is attempted auto theft. And I don't want to interrupt and ask them to move their cop cars while they question this guy. So I'm sitting at my car hoping that this will get resolved soon. 5 mins pass, 15 mins, I'm slowly freaking out because I need to get home and finish packing! I walk around to take a look and see if I can actually get out of my spot without hitting a cop car. No way is that possible, especially in the van I'm driving. So I sit and wait a bit more. Finally one of the cops notices me just sitting there and comes over so I ask him very politely if it would be possible to move one of the cars for me to get out, but if it was any trouble at all I can just wait. He tells me something about his supervisor or whatever so I sit for another 10 mins and then luckily he was able to move his supervisor's car to let me out. But seriously, who tries to steal a car in broad daylight in the middle of the week?

Anyways, I've just checked in online. And the next post will be from our first stop Miraflores, Peru!