After a relatively quiet night, only occasionally punctuated by a strange whistle noise (like a police whistle) we awoke feeling a little better about our accomadations. (It didn´t hurt that it was light outside, and we had a plan to keep ourselves busy that day.) I got up and out early to explore our little slice of heaven. Actually, the grounds are nice, kind of a less luxurious version of Luna y Sol. It is a mini compound with high walls and a gate that is locked at night. Beautiful gardens with interesting yard art and hardscape. There are about [View Full Entry]

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So, as Stef was making the futile attempt to teach me to burp, I was in the midst of trying to figure out HOW I was going to get all my purchases safely packed for our trip the next day to Urubamba. Finally, after much cursing on my part and laughing on Stef´s, I managed to get everything in (whew). I woke up early to get a few pictures and we got an early breakfast. Then we parted ways briefly since I had found an internet service where my memory card reader worked the day before. I had planned on [View Full Entry]

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So, yesterday´s blog I actually finished today (the 9th) because the internet service went kablooie and I lost about 75% of it. :(. And today´s blog I am actually writing on the 10th since we finally found the internet here in Urubama.....more on that on the next blog (the 10th).....confused?? so am i..... at least the symbol keys work here (for the most part). Anyway, after the last blog, we went to the Catholic Church, which we didn´t see last time. Stef´s guide book said that mass lasted until 8am, so at 9am, we assumed we would be ok to go [View Full Entry]

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So, I have found an internet place w/USB ports....however they all have Windows Vista or the system doesn´t recognize my USB.....who knew that in the middle of South America, where you can't flush the tp that they would have the lastest system program. Anyway, apparently the SD card reader that I have to read the memory card for my camera is not Vista compatible......hopefully I can find a older system somewhere, otherwise I will be very disappointed. The other adventure is figuring out the keyboards here. For example, although the symbols are often marked the same as our keyboards, they [View Full Entry]

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Hello out there! Well, after 48 hours and only about 3 hours sleep, we´ve arrived in Cuzco. Our flight from Atlanta was delayed about an hour so we only had about 3 hours at Mami Panchita Hostel to shower and rest. Time to retrain ourselves not to flush the toilet paper. We had quite a reintroduction to South American plumbing when a mysterious moaning sound came forth at the end of every flush. Stef had the audacity to think it was coming from me at first - and then stated that I must have killed the poor thing by flushing [View Full Entry]

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It's the day before lift off, and Stef and I are both running around at a slightly frenetic pace, checking and double checking our supplies. Short of a few set backs (such as Patty needing the pin pulled out of her leg and Stef ripping one of her contacts practically in half this morning), we should be good to go for our Peruvian adventure! [View Full Entry]

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