As the complexity of your travel plans increases, the chance that something will go wrong also multiplies. So while the Delta Airlines solution to get us to Argentina might work, with three plane changes along the way we could easily face more problems. With that in mind other solutions were needed. We considered driving to JFK, about 6 hours from home, but things were already stacked up there with delayed and cancelled flights, and the earliest we could get out there was two days from now.

The other possibility was Toronto, which is only three hours from home. As it turned out we could get a flight on the 30th that would get us into Buenos Aires by 3:30 on December 31, in time for our New Year’s Eve dinner, a restful sleep and easy departure for San Martin de los Andes on New Year’s Day for our fly fishing.

Bags were already packed, so we loaded them into our daughter Sarah’s car and set off for Toronto. The border crossing was easy, roads were dry, and traffic was light. We reached the airport by 7 PM for an 1155 PM departure on Avianca Airlines. Dinner at the airport, kill some time window shopping, board the plane and off we go. Next stop Bogota, Colombia.