Friday April 20th, 2007 by Brian
You might ask, how do we post a blog from the Inca trail in the Peruvian highlands? We don’t. We schedule it in advance. Most of you are unaware but we typically post the blog about 2 weeks after it happens. It takes us awhile to get the pictures online and write something, edit and put it all together. This entry, however, is actually current!
Today we are on day 3 of our 4-day, 44km trek. We are hiking 12km from Pacamayo to Wiñay Wayna. Tomorrow morning we will get up at 4am and hike the last 3 hours to see the sun rise over Machu Picchu.
This is something I’ve been waiting …
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Thursday April 19th, 2007 by Brian
This is what my ears registered as my kidneys felt a one-two elbow from an Italian senior citizen pushing her way onto the already crowded bus. I was standing; make that, hovering, over the bus driver, cuddling the ticket validation machine, as the Campania region bus hurtled along the coast from Sorrento to Amalfi. Perched on towering cliffs over the Mediterranean, this makes California’s Highway 1 look like a German autobahn as it winds back and forth on one to one and a half lanes of tarmac.
What should have been wonderful views from our comfortable seats turned out to be the worst bus experience we have had on this trip. Not the tiny seats without …
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