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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [975]
She is passed out on the couch to the side of the bar. Though she rouses herself enough to lean over the arm of the chair and throw up. I can´t see her face, but she is pale and wears the tell all travel shoes. -Do you speak English? I ask, confident ... Read more >
Tags: drunk, lost, new zealand, perdida
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [1576] | Comments [1]
There is a sea of pale straw larger-than-life cowboy hats that only come out on occasions such as this. We purchase an umbrella from one of the dudes walking around which later inspires the occasional beer bottle caps to be thrown at us throughout the ... Read more >
Tags: bullfighting, bulls, hats, sport, toros
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By nick_earl | Views [856] | Comments [3]
We have arrived in Cuzco, Peru. Inka capital and centre of the Inka empire. Here are a couple of diary entries from our last two days in Bolivia. 8th April - Bus to Copacabana Sitting on the bus today was a great way to watch the world go by. You ... Read more >
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [1210] | Comments [6]
Up we go. 6075 metres above sea level is our goal. We cheat by getting a troupie to drive us up to 4030. I get out of the car with a dizzy head. My lungs try to be bigger. My heart pumps faster to try and compensate. We pack our bags and walk ... Read more >
Tags: altitude sickness, caffeine, up, volcano
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [673] | Comments [1]
But today, I´m playing being a nun. I pay a large fee at sunset to be allowed into a 15th Century convent. Someone leaves candles in the corners of the rooms so one can see ghosts in the the twisting, rocky, catacomb-like, barricaded city within a city.... Read more >
Tags: amazing grace, convent, nun, nunnery
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [2024] | Comments [2]
The rest of our time in Lima flew by, not to mention the
arrival of Mom, Holly and Uncle Don! We spent the last few days befor ethey
showed up investigating the catacombs underneath Cathedral San Fransisco, exploring
the Lima gold museam, and ... Read more >
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 | By cbracco | Views [906]
I wasn’t expecting to update a travel journal several weeks after returning home. After all, I’m not travelling anymore. But since a bit of the jungle hitched a ride home with me, another post seemed appropriate. After taking it easy in Cusco for a ... Read more >
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 | By shanensa | Views [470]
So, I´m blogging, like the title says, and this is strange for me, to attempt journaling without pen and paper, I´m not sure if my thoughts are going to line up right, right away, it may take awhile. Also, this keyboard has ¨sticky keys,¨ highly distracting.... Read more >
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 | By ivan_miral | Views [1792] | Comments [3]
Traveling. I am still finding it like
a magnifying glass on life, showing how things always are, but in
unusually vivid ways. This time, the life-truth that when things
don't seem to be working out as planned, a ... Read more >
Fri, 10 Apr 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [2748] | Comments [2]
A lot has happened since we were in Huacachina. Pretty much everyone that I wrote about in the last blog left PSF(Pisco Sin Fronteras), and were replaced by a whole new crew. Iva and Irany from Croatia, Cameron from Arkansas, Aden from Korea, Abi ... Read more >
Sat, 4 Apr 2009 | By rich | Views [440]
The next day, we go to a couple of the museums in town (also included on our Boleto Turistico) but they're both pretty crap. We grab a quick massage - they're sooo cheap - and board the bus for our 20+ hour ride back to Lima. We don't arrive back in ... Read more >
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 | By rich | Views [467]
It's must be either a hangover from the high of seeing Machu Picchu or a recurrence of my food poisoning, but I feel terrible for hours after we get back to Aguas Calientes. Some bed rest does the trick though, and in the morning we're both fighting ... Read more >
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 | By rich | Views [1158]
It's 5:15am and we're standing at the back of a long line of people, at the bus station. We're waiting for our ride up to Machu Picchu - one of the new 7 wonders of the world. We've had a small breakfast of toast and coffee, but realize that we should ... Read more >
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 | By rich | Photo Gallery
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