Too excited
January 14, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 17 °CBoarding our flight from Miami to Lima! Next update is from the Southern Hemisphere!
Boarding our flight from Miami to Lima! Next update is from the Southern Hemisphere!
Nothing like being roused from your one hour of sleep for your 3 AM airplane food dinner and complimentary beverage. (Is it still "dinner" if it's almost breakfast time?)
We are having a great first day. Upon arrival at 7 AM, we proceeded through customs and to our hostel before heading to the beach! We are staying in the "bohemian" district of Barranco. Our hostel isRead more
We have arrived in Cusco (a.k.a. Qosqo in Quechua) and are settling in to our new altitude. The flight down here was beautiful, and so far the city has a very different feel from Lima. It's not tiny,Read more
We're happy to report that we've made it through the first day of our Inca trail trek to Macchu Pichu! The trip started with a group briefing on Sunday night, where we met our fellow trekkers: aRead more
Today was hellish. Seriously. The Inca trail to Macchu Pichu was originally crafted as a spiritual pilgrimage, upon which the Inca would purify their bodies through physical sacrifice as a means ofRead more
We made it! We finished the Inka Trail and are in Machu Picchu. The expectations we were given were a vast underestimate of the true magnitude of the day, in both the sense of being very physicallyRead more
After returning from Machu Picchu and Cusco, we spent a nice evening in the Callao neighborhood of Lima. We spent some time in the neighborhood park where men were playing futbol and women andRead more
Our devotion to the Manning and our hatred for Tom Brady is strong. Sunday Night Conference Championship football (Americano), live from the resident gringo bar in São Paulo