Friday, June 13, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, rain woke me up once but otherwise slept through the night, finally waking/getting up at 5:15. No rain.

1 day remaining; tomorrow evening about 8pm we leave for the airport. 😊

We have some raindrops but I’m hoping it clears by 8:30 so I can go to the gym.

Teresa got up at 7am, made me breakfast and went back to bed. I soon followed getting up at 8:30.

Even though there were still a few raindrops I decided to do the right thing and left the apt at 8:45 for Smartfit. The gym was a little less busy than usual but I still had to wait on a couple machines, not to mention people leaving their stuff on the place reserved for the user’s water bottle and cellphone. I was careful with the leg exercises today and my knee feels near normal again.

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor and caught the squirrel as, and just after, he took the peanut. (Next time face the camera!)

On the other side of the park, the Bastardo wait staff were playing around with the fire extinguisher.

I left at 10:30 and returned to the apt.

I reread the Pay by Plate procedure for the Illinois Tollway but I’m going to do my best to avoid the tollway.

I’ve been monitoring Google Flights pretty much daily, and yesterday and today (with only one exception $810 weeks ago) has been the cheapest yet at $938 and $845, respectively; I paid $1000 3 months ago.

1:15 in the afternoon and it’s only 75 degrees out. I guess I’ll be wearing my hiking pants this afternoon. I left the apt at 1:30 and walked to the mall. I recycled a glass jar, withdrew 2,000,000 pesos, paid the epm bill in Exito and printed some notes for our Chicago trip. I stopped at the Baloto desk by the parking entrance and asked if I could pay my Movistar bill there. The girl said, “no”, which I was expecting because I didn’t see a Punto de Pago sign. I asked if she knew where I could pay it and she consulted her cellphone then told me to go diagonally across the street to “metro sur wins”. At least now I have an idea of where I can pay it.

While completing the Budget Rental Car PreCheck I ran into a little snag. When I made the reservation, I put my country of residence as Colombia and now during the PreCheck it says, “There is a mismatch between the country of residence provided during reservation & issuing country of driver’s license provided in this form. Please update the country of residence before submitting this form.”

I called Budget’s reservation desk (it wasn’t as straight forward as it sounds and took at least an hour) and they fixed it and informed me, for some unknown reason, the cost is about $200 less than originally quoted. 😊)

 

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