Quilmaná, Lima, Peru Wednesday, June 6, 2012 PERU FOR THE SECOND TIME Margaret and I have been married for 33 years and I seldom take a trip without her. She, on the other hand, has often traveled without me---trips to see the granddaughter, trips with her girlfriend Connie, trips to see her family. So, when my Peruvian friend, Miguel, told me he was going to see his family in Canete, Peru, I got excited. Margaret said "Go!" and that was all the encouragement I needed. We had taken a 2009 trip to Peru and had seen Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, Cusco, Lake Titicaca and Lima; when we arrived home, I longed to return. This trip would involve a much more primitive venture to an arid region 85 miles south of Lima, five miles from the
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