March 26 Elizabeth and had I decided to share a room for our first few days in Lima. Our first night there, March 25th, was absolutely miserable. It was incredibly hot and, like most places in South America, didn’t have any air conditioning. Since E and I were sharing a room with two beds, we couldn’t exactly strip down beyond a certain… Read more →
Category: Peru
Cock-a-doodle-doo
I had trouble sleeping last night because a rooster decided to start crowing, and wouldn’t stop. Not that a rooster crowing is unexpected down here in Peru; things are pretty rural here. However, I’m on the third floor of a hotel and I didn’t expect to have this particular problem because I’m so far from the ground. Apparently, the person… Read more →
Catch-Up, Part 4: A Whirlwind Tour of Northern Peru
Elizabeth arrived in Chiclayo the day after I did. She had had an awful time at the hostel in Mancora and left as soon as she could. I told her all about running out of gas and let her know to get fill up on gas well before she thought she needed it. Thankfully she arrived in one piece and without running… Read more →
Catch-Up, Part 3: Out of Gas in the Peruvian Desert
When Josh and I were planning this trip, we encountered a lot of questions that couldn’t be solved with an Internet search. For example, Josh pointed out that we would be in pretty remote places; were we sure we would always be able to find gas? It was a pretty good question, and I thought about it for a minute. I… Read more →
And Then There Was One
Elizabeth’s mother, her aunt, and a few friends of Elizabeth’s mother all decided to come down to Peru and meet up with Elizabeth. Due to some health issues I’ll get into in another blog post, Elizabeth temporarily stopped traveling by motorcycle and traveled via plane with her mother. Elizabeth and company arrived in Cuzco earlier last week; I arrived Thursday,… Read more →
Catch-Up, Part 2: Crash Into Me
We felt that we had learned all the right lessons from our border crossing into Ecuador. Do all the exit paperwork in the country you’re leaving Get your entry paperwork sorted for the country you’re entering Go through the process of importing your bike Do a happy dance, because you’ve crossed the border! It turns out that we were wrong.… Read more →
I’m going to live!
My test results came in; the infection I had was not C Diff. It was some other type of bacterial infection…some sort of food poisoning. I try to be pretty careful about where I eat down here, but all it takes is one poorly-prepared meal (or some cook not washing their hands) and you get sick. I’ve since finished my course… Read more →
Sidelined in Lima
I owe a couple of posts about Elizabeth and I traveling from Ecuador to Peru, but I’ve had too much happening to be able to take time to write. I fully intend to write those posts sometime soon. Elizabeth and I arrived in Lima this past Friday, March 25th. On Saturday morning I developed a fever. I knew that developing… Read more →
Short update: We’re all alive
Hey there. I was working on a post for a couple of days, but then we had to leave Banos in a hurry. I’ve been traveling for the past three days straight and finally have the time to relax. I’m writing from Chiclayo, Peru. T-Mobile doesn’t play nicely with any of the popular cell networks down here, and the wi-fi… Read more →