Gringo In Peru

Since our approval, we’ve been on the hunt for jobs and plane tickets home.

On the job front, I’ve found a few interesting leads in the Minneapolis area. I haven’t applied for anything yet because I really need to polish my resume. Which got me thinking, what address do I use? My permanent residence is technically my parents place, but I’m living in Peru. What’s a boy to do?

Last night I did apply for a job with the IRS in D.C. I had to act fast, I found the job at 8 p.m. and applications closed at 11. Before you make judgements about my future as a tax man, the job was in the communications department in one of the many divisions of the tax service. What really got me excited was the pay range, $101-140K a year. That’s a lot of beans to count, even with the pricey D.C. area cost of living.

I threw together a quick application, but I doubt there’s a chance for a call back. At the end of the process I was asked to submit a alphabet soup of federal employment forms. Most of which looked like they applied to former military or current government employees.

The good news is I did beat the deadline and my bedtime. It also felt good to get one application down, with many more to go.

Getting home could be another story.

Right after getting our visa news, V called a travel agent friend of hers to see what a plane ticket would cost. We looked at Lima to Fargo since there’s a good chance that’s where we will start operations. American had the best price at $960, Delta was $1200. The advantage of American, besides price, is the schedule. American runs three flights a day out of Lima, we would leave here at 7 a.m., make connections in Miami and Chicago, then land in Fargo around 10 p.m. There are also minimal layovers, about two hours at each stop. With Delta, we would be flying overnight.

We have not looked at Lima to Minneapolis/St. Paul, yet.

We have also talked about renting a car for the Fargo to Minneapolis leg of the journey. That might be less expensive on paper, but car rental companies don’t like it when you “dead head”. That’s the industry term when you rent a car in one city and return it in another. There is usually some sort of fee associated with that, but I have no earthly idea what it would be. It still may be cheaper than flying to Fargo. Who knows.

Looks like we’ll be spending our Valentine’s weekend researching our way home.

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