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Published: January 17th 2009
chrissy and i are in paracas today (took a 4 hr bus from lima this morning and arrived around 11). The sights driving from MiraFlores to paracas was quite surprising and a little disturbing. It is amazing that people can survive and live their lives out of these houses. No front doors, built out of scrap lumber piled on top of each other. This completely blows WV rural right out the window.
Paracas is a quaint and tiny town on the ocean...slightly rural but very pretty with tons of palm trees and beach. The water is a little cool but refreshing. Its not super hot (mid 70s) but no matter how much sunscreen i put on i still get burnt! Today was a lazy day spent napping on the beach and listening to local music in different seaside restaurants. We both keep pinching ourselves and talking about how we cant believe we are actually doing this. We were talking about playing another game of chess... and we lauged saying¨hey, how about another game in a month.. since time is of no concern. We just stopped at the local market and bought food for lunch (tomorrow) and dinner (tonight) for a
grand total of $6! Also, we´re using our purifer and drinking the local water with no side effects..YET! We are planning on spending a quite evening lounging around and much of the same tomorrow. We leave tomorrow evening for a town called ica it is about an hour south of here and a little inland. It promises dune buggies and sand surfing... talk to you then!
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Suzanne
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Wow!
It sounds awesome...I'm happy for you guys and a little jealous. The high in Mo-town today was 10 and I worked a fifty hour week, so it is hard to read this blog without thinking how much I wish I was the one on the adventure. Have fun!