Well, we survived it!! There were a few times that we thought we might not make it all the way up, but Lauren, Mike, and I and our 10 new friends (4 entertaining Aussies, 3 Irish blokes, 2 British girls who were in love with 2 of the said Irish and one poor American who was the brunt of many jokes) succeeded in climbing the 4 day Inca Trail. What fun, what lack of oxygen and what a great group of people (self-proclaimed BEST group EVER!!!!)... Day 1: Early wake-up, lots of driving and trying to get the massive sleeping bags and bedrolls into our backpacks. Highlights of this include: Mike carried my sleeping roll, Lauren´s backpack was so horrible that it was being held together with random straps and her bag looked bigger than the
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