Returning to the US
I am typing this on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. At six this morning, Tom caught a cab to the
Cuenca airport (CUE) for a 7:20 flight to Guayaquil (GYE) He will spend the night in GYE, and then
catch an early morning flight from GYE to Miami tomorrow. Oddly, the flight schedules within Ecuador
rarely make it convenient to catch international flights. Most likely, you will have to spend the night
in either GYE or Quito (UIO) From Miami,
he flies to Charlotte, North Carolina.
He is meeting up with his siblings to wrap up his late mother’s estate. He is scheduled to return to GYE on the 18th. He will spend the night in GYE again, then he
has hired a drive to bring him over the mountains into Cuenca – the exact same
plan we used when we moved here.
We had four more footlockers full of stuff at his mother’s
house. Those lockers contain my
KitchenAid stand mixer, Miele vacuum cleaner, high end cookware, photos and
other items that weren’t immediately needed here in Ecuador. The idea was that
we would bring these lockers back to Ecuador on a future trip. We just didn’t plan on the “future trip” to
be so close to our arrival in Ecuador.
Since we’ve arrived in Ecuador, we’ve been compiling a list of things
for Tom to bring back to Cuenca. Not a
whole lot – we’ll go over that list later.
Way back when – when we bought our tickets to move to
Ecuador – we had to buy roundtrip tickets.
Unless you are a resident, Ecuador wants to see a return ticket or just a
ticket OUT of Ecuador. The return
portion of our tickets is for early June – the latest we could book. We knew we weren’t going to return home in
June; therefore, we’ll pay the $200@ change fee, and go back to the US at
another time. We’ve just started
thinking about a return trip to use the tickets. Of course, we’ll have to buy one way tickets
back to Ecuador. We may go back for the
holidays. We’ll have to start planning
that return trip soon.
OK, so what is on Tom’s list of items to bring back from the
first trip home? Mostly small items:
more snacks for Sonny Bunny, Spot Shot (stain remover), rechargeable
flashlights, good extension cords (with flat plug heads) some toiletry items, and
duty-free alcohol and cologne.
AN UPDATE: Tom's trip went well, despite having to handle 4 footlockers, 1 large luggage piece, and his carry-ons all by himself. Everything made it to GYE with no problems. Like the first trip, TSA went through each of the footlockers. He scooted through GYE Customs and Immigration with no questions. Jorge Lopez drove him to Cuenca the next day.
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