Our flight to Lima arrived about 20 minutes late, meaning we missed our bus into the city and had about an hour to kill before the next one. So naturally, we decided to eat at a Papa John’s in the airport. I wish we could say we were ashamed of ourselves, but we’re not! We’ve rarely been to American restaurants while traveling, but we just couldn’t pass up the cheesesticks! After indulging ourselves, we caught the next bus and made…
“I want a penthouse,” Erika said while looking through AirBnbs for Arequipa. We’d had just about enough of our budget housing for our trip to Machu Picchu, and we wanted something a little nicer again. We still missed our condo in La Paz. “Oooh, forget a penthouse, maybe I want a colonial house!” The sky was the limit for us, apparently. We did settle on that penthouse, and on May 5 we left Cusco and flew to Arequipa, Peru. The AirBnb…
Erika was fortunately starting to feel better when we woke up in Ollantaytambo on the day of our train ride up to Aguas Calientes. Which was excellent, as we were a day away from Machu Picchu, long one of the most important points on this trip! Our train was leaving just after noon, so Erika wanted to spend a little time walking around Ollantay in the morning. We headed down the main road, to the entrance to town, where awaited…
“My throat hurts,” Erika said to me Saturday night while we were packing up Franz and Helga for our early morning flight to Cusco, Peru. Thus began nearly a month of Erika dealing with illness in one form or another, and of me exploring Peru on my own for a while. Cusco We landed in Cusco and had to argue with the taxi drivers over rates—amazingly, something we really hadn’t done until now. “Oh, that’s for taxis outside the airport,…
