Our last full day in Lima. We leave for Cusco at 10am and we have to be at the airport around 830 so we’ll have to take an early cab. We woke up this morning pretty early because even on Saturday the construction outside our window was going on. The sawing this morning, which seems constant in this city, was much worse than normal. It sounded like they were cutting cement!! How horrible. We had a pretty wicked hangover and I hadn’t slept much so I walked to the bodega down the street to get big water. It was delicious. After chilling for a few, Brett and I went to get a coffee and some breakfast/lunch. We had a chicken sandwich with French fries and lettuce on it haha. It was pretty decent and very cheap ... read more

I just typed the date and almost forgot what day it was. How great is that? I don’t have a thing to do except see sights, workout, go to the bar, read, and meet people. Oh ya, and sleep late. I love that part hahah. So today was kind of a crazy day. We stayed up super late last night as you can probably tell by my previous entry, and I was fairly hung over this morning. Brett was worse than I was though. He stayed up later. So I was digging through my papers and whatnot and trying to figure out about our trip to Cusco on Sunday and I looked at my confirmation for the hostel we are at now and realized that I only booked our room for five nights and not seven ... read more

We woke up kind of late today and decided that we needed some coffee so we ventured out to Starbucks and sat and had a coffee for an hour or so. We did some people watching which, in the area of Miraflores, is a great time. There are so many different kinds of people and ages of people that walk by on the main strip. It took up a solid hour of our time. We came back to the hotel around 1300 1400 and decided to go to the beach because Brett wanted to surf. I wasn’t so hot on surfing but he really wanted to so we went down to the beach and immediately we were accosted by the people trying to sell surf lessons and surf boards to the general population that is walking ... read more

The traffic situation here is insane. When we drove in from the airport we were amazed at how crazy everyone drives, not to mention the fact that you are inches from the car or autobus next to you at any given time. There aren’t really lanes of traffic per se, the cars kind of just weave in and out of the road when they can, there are very few traffic lights, only at the very major intersections and so at the smaller streets that intersect the main roads, it’s a free for all and cars just go when they can and people walk when they think it is safe which may or may not be the case haha. When we were down in the dodgy part of the city yesterday we saw a car accident right ... read more

Brett and I woke up fairly hung over since we were out so damn late boozing the previous night. Our hostel room smelled pretty musty and is in the back part of the hostel next to the “storage room” where the mishmash of wares that people have left or discarded just end up. The hallway is dark and a little dingy but the hostel itself is very friendly and inviting. There are lots of people staying here from all over the world: Japanese, Chilean, Canadian, American, Peruvian people all staying in the same locale. It’s pretty great. The weather here is hot. Easily 80-90 degrees every day and pretty humid so sleeping is a chore since there isn’t a breeze in our room and it gets fairly stifling with the door closed. It’s nice to open ... read more