Nate and Kara's Airbnb hosts vanish on their last day in Lima, leaving them without locks or luggage access. They salvage the day with a local food guide named Erica, hitting a market for ceviche and fish soup, then navigate Good Friday crowds to catch their flight.
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Good morning.
It is Good Friday, and everything's gonna be closed.
If you watched yesterday's vlog, we started running into this problem last night when we couldn't find anywhere to eat dinner because every restaurant was closing for Easter Sunday.
So now we're out wandering the streets. We've gotten ourselves into, like, the weirdest Airbnb situation that we've ever been in. They accidentally booked a, like, shared house with the people who live there. So just, like, a private room in their house, and then they've disappeared. And now there's some other people staying there that I think are also Airbnb people from El Salvador. It's just a weird situation. I don't feel comfortable using their kitchen. So we're on the hunt for coffee.
We also don't have locks to our bedroom.
Tonight. Today is our last full day in Lima, but we don't leave till 11:45 tonight. So we've got, like, plenty of time to do stuff if we can find anything that's open Friday. Closed in Spanish. Locks on the door, chairs on the table. Unhappy. Cara. I know we can get coffee. McDonald's.
Come on Mickey's.
I figure big corporations make their employees work on holidays, so we've Google mapped.
The nearest McDonald's when we lived at home in Tennessee. I think I could count on one hand how many times I went to McDonald's or any fast food except for Chick Fil A in the whole time we were married. And now it's like, no shame if we need coffee. You can always depend on them. And I need it.
Your true face before coffee came out.
Right.
Right there. When you're grabbing that.
It's time for our least favorite part of full time traveling. Packing up our drunk.
When we get into a room, our bags just seem to explode. Like, everything in our bag has a purpose and we need it. That's why we carry it around the world with us.
And.
And so, like, it almost all has to be completely impacted, especially our electronics, because everything needs to be plugged in.
So even if we're just somewhere for, like, one night, as soon as our bag opens, it's just like, explosion. I don't know how it happens. We're really not messy people.
So, yeah, it's.
We exploded in here.
Quite the mess. Also, it is 11:05. Pretty sure we were supposed to be checked out by 11. Still haven't heard from our Airbnb host. No earthly idea if they even live here anymore. I also wanted to store our bags here because we don't have to Leave for the airport till like 6:30 or 7.
I think we're just gonna do it anyway.
Yeah, I haven't heard back from them, so just gonna leave the bags packed up in here, keep the keys and come back and get them. Unless we hear differently between now and whenever we finish packing up.
So while we were packing, Erica, the lady that we went on the food tour with a couple days ago, invited us to meet her at another local market. I think she's just like shopping for food and invited us to come along.
It's a beautiful day. Our Airbnb host still hasn't messaged us back, so we're leaving our stuff in.
Here, taking the keys and hoping for the best. Sometimes when you spend so much time together you start saying the same things. According to Google Maps, we can either walk and it'll take 25 minutes or we can take public transportation and it'll take 24. I guess there's always Uber. But it's a nice day. Let's get to see more of the city.
Pretty sure we're in the right place. The sign says mericado in huge letters. It looks pretty awesome.
Potato, but it's from the Amazon. Oh my God.
We had plans to leave the market after we met with Erica to go to the city center and have cheapo for lunch. Then we met this super nice family from Rhode island and we're just having such a great time. We thought we would stay and have a local meal here, starting with fish soup that you can go get the soup.
Oh my God, it's so good.
Have you ever heard Andrew Zimmer's story? He was like.
What channel? It says that he makes traditional food. What you see every day in the local markets, in the local homes. That's how he prepare his food. Like with more love and. No, with love.
Where the action happens.
Boy care.
We just had the best time with Erica, our new friends from Rhode island and the ceviche guy. That's literally what people call him. And now I don't know what we're going to do cuz we were going to go to the square to get cha but I'm like really cold so maybe we'll just get ice cream over there.
It's all about the food. Yeah. Thank you so much. We just said our last goodbye to Erica. That was a great impromptu second food tour. We were just supposed to be hanging out at the market and it ended up being this whole amazing experience again. If you didn't watch our last food tour. She runs a food tour Through a company called Delectable Brew. Check out our website. And then when we said bye, she was like, yeah, go with this girl and she'll swipe you in and get on this bus.
And so now she set us up for success on the local transport.
We think we're getting on the right bus, but from here it's like just us and we're not 100% sure that we're going in the right direction. We're trying to go to the main square.
So far, so good. We got off like one stop too early, but we're within like five blocks of where we wanted to be.
It was getting antsy. We were scared we were going to miss it.
A big success. Arriving at the public transport here for the first time.
We officially made it to the walking street that's gonna lead us to the square.
Doctor, what's happening with everyone in the square? This is the place to be on Good Friday in Lim.
We just sat in front of the cathedral and listened to the music for a while. It was so nice. They really celebrate Good Friday and Easter here. Everybody is out.
For those of you who don't know, when we started traveling full time last January, we were in Asia for like four months. So Chinatowns are so near and dear to our heart.
Developed a deep love for Asian food. We've got about 30 minutes until the sun sets and until we need to, like, start heading back to be able to get to the airport on time. We found these pork pines online that look incredible. Hopefully we can find them in a.
Very short amount of time. Chinatown fast track.
That's hanging from the window. That's when you know you're back in Asia.
I don't know if this is the place that we found online. That had good buns, but nevertheless, we found the buns.
Ishmael is coming.
We asked our Uber driver if you minded to wait on us for five minutes while we grabbed our stuff so he can take us to the airport. We think he understands. We hope he's here when we come back.
We're also really hoping that our bags are still in the apartment we were supposed to check out at 11. We just left our bags here because our people that we're living with just disappeared.
Please don't be here. Please don't be here.
All the footage that we've shot for the past month is on a hard drive. This thing cares backpack. If it's stolen, it's basically the end of the world.
Our stuff.
Yay.
It's here. Wahoo. Gracias lo. Siento.
Lo siento.
So sorry.
Jo did understand he was waiting for us. But our plan did not work.
We called Uber. Standing right beside him, who was an Uber driver. And it called somebody else.
Jose.
Jose.
So we tipped Ishmael goodbye.
Is this Jose Uber?
I cannot believe we're leaving Peru. Our flight's at 11:45pm we're ending today's vlog here, and tomorrow's vlog is going to pick up here.
Today has been a big day. We're just gonna put all today in one video and all traveling to the next place that I'm not supposed to stay in the next video.
So you'll see where we're going in tomorrow's vlog.
Should we give some hints so people can try to guess?
There's really good wi Fi.
There is fantastic Mexican food.
Okay, that's too much.
Okay.
America.
Sorry, kara.
