I did it, I did it, I did it, I did it!!!!!!!!!!I had two new "firsts" today; I took my first ride on a five person plane, and had my first experience vomiting on my own shoes. The upside to experiencing my first air-sickness was that as soon as the nausea hit, the anxiety completely disappeared, and the downside seems self-explanatory.We took an early morning flight over the Nazca lines, mysterious pre-inca carvings in the desert rocks of various geometric shape...

Day two in Peru and we're sitting on a bus heading from Lima to Nazca. After wandering the city for several hours, we got tired of not breathing and decided to heed the advice we'd been given about what to do in Lima- vacate as quickly as possible. In our one night there we did manage to check out the main square, Plaza de Armas, which was lovely and lined with old colonial buildings, including the presidential palace, several colorful plaster cows, reminiscent o...