Cuzco, Peru - Puno has been intriguing, interesting, and inspiring. It’s also been hard to breathe and cold. We’re ready to leave, and getting up with the sun isn’t a problem on our day of departure. I’m not sure we really slept much at all, especially given that that packed van is coming back for [...]
Puno, Peru - Some thoughts looking back at our last day in Puno - for a small, rural city, it’s very clean. There’s definitely a bit of dirt and grime around, but there’s simply no litter - and I noted that people are very careful about depositing their garbage in trash receptacles around the city [...]
Puno, Peru - One of the things one learns quickly when traveling is that guidebooks are invariably, simply, wrong. There was a recent article to this effect that basically interviewed a bunch of writers for various travel guides who said that they get paid so little, that it isn’t worth their time to actually check [...]
Puno, Peru - Our first day in Puno dawned bright and early… given how early we’d hit the sack, it was about 6:30 a.m. when we both gave up on trying to sleep. Plus we were both feeling the effects of the altitude, so we headed downstairs to the breakfast room and knocked back a [...]
Puno, Peru - It’s been a long time since I went on vacation with someone else. Years. I’m used to just sort of throwing a few things in a suitcase and figuring it all out as I go. With three weeks to explore Peru, whow knows where I might have ended up. However… Henry likes [...]
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