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Published: April 20th 2006
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Incan warlord
Outside the ruins in Sacred Valley. Today was a day of mucho rest. Finally. We woke up around 930, and lounged around chatting til about 130, when we made our way down to the train station. It was only 30 minutes on foot, but the street was coblestone and a little tough on the wheels of our backpack/luggage - so we paid for an auto to take us there. By auto, I mean a 3 wheeled motorcycle thing with a little carriage behind it. I told the 12 year old driving it we wanted to buy a hat for the sun. (both Justin and I are burned, him on the neck and me on my forehead). It doesn´t matter how you come here, dark or light, you will get burned, baby, burned. Anyway, somehow he took hat for my head, to mean haircut, and took us to a salon. I was telling him I´m practically bald as it is, why do I need a haircut, when the senora of the place said she also sells hats. And eggs, as it turns out. We bought one each that says Machu Picchu on it. Kind of touristy, so we´ll look like dorks on the mountain, but cool souvenier anyway.
Sacred River
The sacred pool near Ollantaytambo. So tomorrow we take the 630 bus to Machu, and return around 230 (can you tell I cannot find the semicolon?).
Anyway, since we´re heading up so early, that is the reason we came to Aguas today on the train. Otherwise we wouldn´t get here til 1000, and
ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH
PUCHA MAMA!
Okay, I´m back now. I was getting up from the computer to give Justin the key to the hotel, so he could walk 3 blocks down dark, narrow alleys, in a strange country, at NIGHT! (as spongebob says) to get our camera chip to burn some pictures here on this blog. ANYWAY, as I stood up I kicked the cord, disconnected the computer, and lost everything I´d typed after the last save.
But, Justin is back now, safe and sound, a real world traveller. With the chip, AND with corrections to my grammar. Allow me to pass them on to you, my dear readers, to further enhance your understanding of language. (Huh? why no, it doesn´t bother me at all - ha). First of all, he says it´s not a semicolon I was looking for, but a colon. Like this : . (I told him what he could do with that colon, but it didn´t come out right. Anyway, I corrected it. Whatever)
So now I will type 630 like this 6:30, as is 6colon30.
Okay, he also told me traveller only has one L. I said I´d read dozens of blogs before coming on the trip, all spelling with two, and had looked it up in the dictionary, which said it could go both ways. But then smarty pants said yes, that is true, but two L´s is correct if you are BRITISH. I said "so".
Hey, I couldn´t think of anything better. (we are now debating if I have to put a question mark after my "so". )
Okay, you all are bored with this, me peeved, and Justin just getting warmed up, so we´ll end this "correct usage of colons and question marks and one L or two L" conversation.
Back to the train. Pretty cool. Hour and a half ride up the Andes. Every single one of the seats were arranged sitting forward, two on one side of the aisle, two on the other. All except the seat numbers 5 and 6 on carriage A. Those faced to the rear, facing two other seats, where one could sit, knees touching, with whomever had those seats. Guess which we had? Right. At first, a little awkward because the entire train looked forward while we faced them, but we got to know the people in front of us, and had a nice chat. One was a tour guide from Cuzco, travelling with 2 girls from England. The other was a girl from Germany, travelling on her own for the past 3 months, touring south america. Both spoke english, but for whatever reason we found ourselves speaking entirely in spanish. Pretty cool.
In a few minutes we´ll go to dinner, here in Aguas Calientes. The restaraunt has an Andes band and dancers, so should be good.
We´ve also met several other traveLLers, from all over the world. More from Europe, Australia and south american than from the USA. On top of the Puca Pucara ruins we had a nice conversation with a man from Poland, now living in Canada and touring Peru. Very interesting. He filled us in on a few current events, and commented that he thought tensions were heating up between Europe and the US on one side and Mexico and the Muslim community on the other. We chatted for a while, getting a point of view from Europe and the Russia.... anyway, it was cool.
Okay, we´ve got the pics burned to CD. Hopefully they´re up, and you are now seeing those we took recently.
Chao, Chao
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Petrea
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Hi Mark and Justin, I enjoyed to information. I can picture the two of you talking about grammer and punctuation in some computer place. Funny! I'm glad you finally got some rest. It sounds like you are having a great time. See you soon. Love, Mom