Farewell - sadly

Time to pack. There's not a lot for me to take home. A box of salt crystals is probably the main item.
The last four days passed in a flash although we've mainly be sitting at the kitchen table talking and eating – they claim I don't eat a lot... Usually in the afternoon I go to the girls, where Angelica is taking care of her siblings as her mother is in Santa Cruz with her sick mother and Betty is out with her friends. One afternoon they are looking at the pictures of the trip on her “new” laptop. Their room is neatly in order. They all contribute – if a thing is put back, it is put back right.
I wish the place was closer.
At 17.45h after the mandatory tripod pictures in front of Sakurai's house I depart sadly. Aya rides with me as she has to attend university tomorrow in Santa Cruz. It's about 1.5 hours with little traffic but the difficulty that at night the road dividers are hardly visible, the cars are blinding, etc. The dorp-off procedure at Avis takes about 45 minutes during which the car is inspected closely (incl. from below). I get the lift to the airport where there's a huge line at American Airlines – high season. Families travel with suitcases in sizes of chests that the Spaniards used to take out the silver coins. Time to check-in probably also takes about 45 minutes. From there on things go on schedule with the biggest delay being the flight to Zürich (from 10 to 40 minutes).