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Pisco Paracas PERU
Peru: Pisco August 6-7, 2009 Arrival The overnight bus ride was 12 hours long, and we were still dozing off and on when the bus attendant roused us, saying “Pisco, Pisco!” We were dumped at the side of the road, precisely as they had promised me we wouldn’t be. I need to be able …
Callao Peru
Peru: Callao (Lima) August 7-8, 2009 Lima We’d reserved a hostel close to the airport, since we had an early flight home. The only problem was that the hostel was ridiculously far from the center of Lima. We asked the bus attendant about how much it should cost to get there, so the taxi driver …
Arequipa Peru
Peru: Arequipa August 3-5, 2009 Arequipa We arrived in Arequipa around 2:30 pm. We got an apathetic taxi driver who claimed to know where our hostel was, but had no clue. Once again, I, the tourist, had to take out my map and help the local taxi driver find the right street. In the end, …
Cusco Peru
Peru: Cusco & Sacred Valley July 28-30, 2009 Altitude We arrived in Cusco around noon. In 23 hours, we’d gone from sea level to over 11,000 feet. We felt ok—no signs of altitude sickness–except Zac was a little headachy. But 23 hours on a bus can do that to you, so it wasn’t necessarily from …
Lake Titicaca
Peru: Lake Titicaca August 1-2, 2009 Puno We had a seven and a half hour bus ride to Puno. We alternated between dozing and listening to David Sedaris. Although we were still at a high altitude, we were on a sort of plateau with fields that were used for grazing animals. It was slightly surreal …
Machu Picchu
Peru: Machu Picchu July 30-31, 2009 Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu Town) Our expensive train ride to Aguas Calientes was only about one and half hours long. The train descended from the cool altitude of Ollantaytambo into the jungle-like cloud forest. The three-thousand foot drop in elevation was evident in the warmth and the vegetation. Scrubby …
Peru Epilogue
Peru: Epilogue August, 2009 “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” –Lin Yutang Raleigh, NC On the last leg of our flight, from Miami to Raleigh, there was a group of rather large people with bright blue T-shirts proclaiming the …
Lima Peru
Peru: Lima July 26-27, 2009 Airport Taxis We only had a few hours of sleep on the plane because the flight attendants kept waking us to feed us and make us fill out immigration forms. It was in this tired state that we had to face the first nuisance of foreign travel: airport taxis. Most …
SERA
SERA’S FAVORITE RECIPES MAIN MEALS Beef and Noodles Beef Stew Chili Exploded Peppers German Hot Potato Salad Ham and Lentil Soup Ham Bone Soup Hunter’s Style Chicken w/ Bow Tie Noodles Meatloaf Pineapple Chicken Rice Scalloped Potatoes and Ham Sloppy Joes Sera’s Spaghetti Sauce Thai Chicken Fettuccini SIDES Asparagus Fettuccini Baked Macaroni & Cheese w/ …
Latin American Travel Photos
Travels in Panama and Costa Rica July 2007 Panama Costa Rica Zac and I have had more than our fair share of travels in foreign countries, but this trip seemed different. It was the first time that it really felt like a vacation in the traditional sense—an escape from the humdrum routine of life as …