Thanks to some help from Mark Block and a little to TravelBlog who found a majority of the blogs and recovered them. I have made a backup of everything and placed a copy on our local server: http://www.themoops.com/justin/boliva-peru_blog.php Thanks to everyone who supported me during my travels and if I haven't seen or talked to you yet, I look forward to doing so. Take care, Justin [View Full Entry]

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So, TravelBlog has screwed me over. Somehow, the moderator guy deleted thousands of blogs and mine was one of them. Most of my blog has been lost and is completely unrecoverable! I restored some of it, but think I am done trying. I hope you all enjoyed reading it and perhaps someone wrote it all down?? FYI, I am back in the states safe and healthy. I started my new job yesterday and so far so good. I actually just had a meeting regarding the redesign of the website (www.airtreks.com) and it looks like I have a lot of work set [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Nasca at 6am. We checked in to our hotel and planned on meeting at 10 to head out to the Nasca Lines. I slept for another few hours...it has been a long sleeping day! We arrived at the airport at around 12:00. For $55, we took at 30 min flight over the Nasca Lines. For those of you who are not sure what these lines are, they are basically HUGE images drawn on the desert floor aging back to 300 B.C. up to 600 A.D. They are still a mystery as to what their meaning is or as [View Full Entry]

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Happy Independence Day Peru! We were up and on the bus at 6am and off to try and catch the Condors flying over the canyon. We had the luck to see 5 or 6 of them. After, we made a few stops over looking the canyon and the below valley as we made our way to lunch, YEP, another buffet by popular demand. Again, it was awesome and did not disappoint. After lunch, it was a 3hr drive back to Arequipa. I actually managed to sleep for most of it. We then met up at 4pm to check out the market. [View Full Entry]

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Today was mostly a bus day and site seeing on the way to and into Colca Canyon. We made a lunch stop in Chivay which was one of the best buffets I have ever had...YES, better than Vegas. All the food was local food...Alpca, Llama, chicken, trout, pasta, etc. dishes. I think I had 4 helpings and two desert helpings. After lunch, we stopped at a Sulfa water hot spring for probably about 2 hours. During this time it got more and more crowded by the second. We then made our way to the hotel. This place was the nicest, most [View Full Entry]

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Woke up and met up with a few of the others for breakfast at 11am. We went (for the 3rd time) to Jake´s. We met up with everyone else at 1pm back at the hotel for our trip to the airport. We arrived in Arequipa as the sunset and bused over to Hostel Solar. We took 30 min to get a bag ready for tomorrow (we are off to Coca Canyon) and met up for dinner. I ordered the Ostrich plate, but the waiter came back a few minutes later informing me and 2 others that they were out. I was [View Full Entry]

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Last night, Pun set his clock for a 3:45 wake up. This morning, it went off at 1:45...apparently he set it for England time...BASTARD! Our wake up call came at 4am and Pun picked up the phone and hung up without getting up. At 4:20, we got a knock on the door, which I answered, from the receptionist saying Jose was waiting for us in the lobby, we were suppose to meet him at 4:15! I rush to get dressed, wake up Pun and get downstairs to let Jose know we are awake and on our way. When I get there, [View Full Entry]

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July 22 - 24.... Let me start by saying, I do not recommend doing the Inca Trail or the Lares Trek with a bad stomach. I am sure you all knew that, but I am going to spare the details on that for the rest of the entry. Day One From Ollantaytambo (now going to be referenced as OlanTambo for short) I met up with my new group and made a 20 minute stop in Calca to buy any goods we still needed for the Trek. I purchased gifts for the porters (coca leaves) and gifts for the kids we are [View Full Entry]

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Sorry for the lack of details to come, but the internet connection I am using is the most expensive I have used as well as the slowest I have since keeping in touch with everyone...a picture is worth a million words, so you´ll just have to wait till my pictures are available (in a year). We left Cusco and made a few stops on our way to Ollantaytambo. Ccora (not positive about spelling) Valley: most of the people living here are farmers for beans. We made a stop above the valley for a quick photo op. CacaCollo (again, not positive about [View Full Entry]

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When you´re slidding into first and you feel something burst.... Yep, I spent the day between the bed and the bathroom today, mostly the bed thank god! So I forgot to mention, and I am positive this is the cause...during our rafting trip yesterday, near the end, we all pushed each other off the raft into the miserably cold water. Well, while I took Adam down, I also took a mouth full of the river. So, today I started Cipro and I leave for the Lares Trek in 2 days...we actually leave for the Sacred Valley tomorrow. I am already feeling [View Full Entry]

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