Day 301 - Cuenca

Before leaving this morning, we cleaned the inside of our "house" to look more presentable.

Then the road climbed into the Cordillera Negra. The deeper we drove into the mountains, the worse the weather became. Soon it was raining heavily, and the road became like the one in the Huaraz Valley. On the outskirts of Cuenca, we had a flat tire. What a "pain in the rain."

I was in my rain jacket and rubber boots, changing the wheel, watching people with buckets scooping up water from inside their huts and throwing it out the front door. It looked so funny! We were later told this was normal during the rainy season. We ate something in a small restaurant, and after a long search, found parking where we were allowed to stay overnight.

We observed a few people that looked like drifters or drug addicts and were not locals. Cuenca is a city of about 80,000 people. There wasn't much we could do that day because of the rain, and we decided to wait with the visit of our contact until it cleared up.

Stats: Miles 110, Expenses $5.51Read more