Lest anyone think that travel is all glamorous, our experience today should change that perspective. At 2am I received a message stating that our LATAM flight from Puerto Iguazu to El Calafate through Buenos Aries had been cancelled. In my experience it is best to get to the airport as soon as possible for rebooking in such situations. When we arrived we were second in lined (not bad). Unfortunately, the couple in front of us got the last seats on a reasonable alternative flight (dammit!). Instead we got booked on a flight that would require an overnight in Buenos Aries and have us arrive late the next day in El Calafate, twenty four hours after our scheduled rendezvous with climbing partner, Ray Himenez (Shit!) I figured out a crazy alternate routing with Aerolineas Argentina which would get us to El Calafate the same day. It was already boarding but the agent was willing to hold it for us. He tagged our bags and put them on board. Meanwhile, we were waiting on LATAM to sign over the fare. We waited and waited but they took forever. Eventually, our new flight could wait no longer, our bags were pulled, and we were back to square one. After 2.5 hours of negotiations with the gate agents we came up with another option that will get us into El Calafate by 8am tomorrow. No sooner than getting our new tickets that flight was delayed by 2.5 hours. Unfortunately, it has been my experience that such delays are not uncommon in South America.