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Our day on Machu Picchu

March 20th 2011
As indicated in our earlier blogs, the health of ´Team Smith´ wasn´t exactly 100% this past week in Cuzco. So we were nervous when our alarm went off at 5:20am on Friday to launch our trip to Machu Picchu. In addition to the stomach and altitude issues we had been suffering from, the alarm was rousing us from an awful sleep. For some reason, between 1am and 4:30, none of us slept much. We came ... read more
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