Day 1. Despite the trepidation over the Trail itself, we had a good group and Mario, our guide, was also pretty cool. There were 8 in the group: Rod and I, Abby and Stephanie (24 year olds from near Chicago), Jason and Rebecca (from San Francisco), David (an adventure sports nut from the US Midwest) and Antoine (a lawyer who’s lived in all kinds of interesting places but now lives in Oklahoma). Day one was billed as ‘easy’, but I wouldn’t go that far! After a very early start, our first Inca ruins and several hours of walking (the last few of which were the start of the biggest climb on the Trail), we were all rather tired. The food, however, was great and we all got to know each other over dinner (Mario was working
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