500 alarm, accompanied by the nightmarish sound of around 15 roosters all crowing at once from one of the buildings nearby. Apparently it's ok to keep roosters in the nice hotel/hostel area? 615 pickup by a real nice guy who didn't speak a word of English. We had halting conversation about my trip as I finally got to admire the two volcanos that dominate the northern skyline in Arequipa. One was smoking a bit! 825 flight to Lima, which was pretty uneventful. I di...

After an evening of dancing and about an hour of sleep, by kindly cousin Michael delivered me to the airport at 5:15AM for a day of hopping from Des Moines to Chicago to Miami and the 5.5 hour last leg to Lima. Highlights were seeing Cuba from 95k feet, chatty missionaries, the amazing carpet of lights that is Lima from the air (9 million people!) and the driver Juan's smiling face to greet me at the end of my journey. He was very kind to me about my broken Spani...