Yeah Machu Picchu!!!!... and I have done many other things since the last blog post. The picture attached to this post isn't mine, but Iwas there and have oodles of pictures exactly like it and will post them eventually. I was planning on having thanksgiving in Pisco Peru, with the organization Hands On Disaster Response, and organization that I helped for about a week. I got there on the Wednesday before, realizing that if I really wanted to see Machu Picchu a...

Whoah... tired. Well, I would like to elaborate more on whats going on,but you guys are going to have to wait a few days because I am TIRED. So after three days in Miraflores I spent two days biking through the desert to get to Pisco, Peru, which was totally demolished by a 9.1 earthquake two months ago. staked out a spot ground for my tent at the "dead seal" the cramped tent city where 10 volunteers sleep, had dinner with the other 70 volunteers my ...

TRAGEDY STRIKES OUR INTREPID ADVENTURER. I lost my camera and all of my pictures. Here is how it happened. As I was biking from Huaraz to Lima there is an amazing downhill (obviously, as it is going from high mountains to the coast). My camera is usually securely attached to my handelbars so I can (A) know where it is at all times and (B) take pictures quickly and easily. About 5 miles down the amazing zipping downhill, I stop to adjust somthing on my bike and...

Short and sweet.. In the town of Trujillo I worte for an hour and half and then the power went out. Very irritating. Here is the short list of what have been happening, I'll try and elaborate in the next town: OK in the next town, Huaraz, and going to elaborate on all the things below! As I have said before, the coast of Peru is a frickin desert, and I didn't realize that this close to the ecuator someone can get majorly sunburnt even on a cloudy day. I have le...

Whoah.... I am pooped. So after I last posted I ended up running into some people who I had meet the week before in Banos! Some students doing an exchange program in Quito Ecuador were down in Cuenca for the weekend, and I had dinner and went SALSA DANCING with a few of them. Something t5hat they mentioned when we were at dinner was that if someone is in Peru for more than a month, they need to get a certain identification card or when they exit they will have t...