Ok, its 10:10 and I am loosing track of things. First of all the internet connection at this hotel, the one in Cuzco, casa something… sucks. Worse then not working, it kinda works and I have to sit in the courtyard to get a decent signal AND I forgot my cable!!!!!!!!!! Doh! They of course did not have one.
Lima looked like a war zone and they lost. They said something about rebuilding stuff…
We were told last night by Alphonso, ok I really don’t remember his name, that the airport was not problem, well they checked my bag. That worked out ok, but that was condor error #1. Then when we go t to the hotel we met Lauren there. She was waiting in the sitting area waiting for us, YEAH! That was the good news. Vanessa, might really be her name, gave me a price to include Lauren in the tour, but did not take a card number wanted us to pay Carlos, again, maybe his name , for the tour. I told her to just put it on the credit card…. Oh yea, I think it was about this time I determined that my ATM card was missing… my screw up, ,mad at me, cancelled the card… The bank asked if I wanted another one, I said sure, meet me in Santiago… no go.
The hotel people wanted $$$ for Lauren and gave us a bed, no biggy, bug they would not let us pay for it until we check out at oh… 5:00 AM! Fun is.
Then we met Carlos for the first tour. He wants cash money to include Lauren. I give him cash money and he has to talk to the office several times.
The tour of Cuzco was good. Those Spaniards were not nice, AND apparently they had some miracles help them extinguish the Inca’s… hmmm .
I talked several time to Condor and might have gotten Lauren straightened out…
oh yea, Lauren is my daughter who is studying in Santiago, Chile and met us in Cuzco for part of our trip.
We got a bunch of great pictures that you won’t see for a while. See earlier rant… We went to the Temple of the Sun God. He (the sun god) was not around. There was some light rain, it was pretty cool though… see pictures 104cannon. The altitude did not bother us much at all. We were out of breath a couple of times, but we had to catch up with our tour and go places that were a little more out of the way.
Food:
Lunch, was good, I had trout, Marlo had chicken, and Lauren had some veggie thing… it was ok, and not too expensive…
now dinner, that was a whole nother deal. I won’t keep you in suspense, it was very good! I did pick the place from the list that Venessa would not commit too.
I had tacu tacu (alpaca) with praline and risotto and an egg, excellent. Marlo had stuffed chicken and Lauren had veggie raviolis.
we shopped and those vendors are relentless!!!!!!!!!! There is a picture of an 8 year old hawking finger puppets! Gives a whole new meaning to tenacious!!!
We have a 4:15 wakeup call… we got up this morning at 6:00… We have a 1.5 hour van ride and a 3 hour train ride and a tour of Muchu Picchu tomorrow. I should sleep soon, but I am uploading pictures…
Just wanted to say hi, Rick, and tell you that I’m following your travels with great interest! I envy you this adventure, and I know that despite the various inconveniences along the way, you’ll be creating fond memories – but more important, living in those moments right now. Looking forward to pictures. Happy trails, stay safe, and have fun, bud!