Southern Peru

O.K. we've dealt with the fact the garbage is not going away, it's just the way it is down here (for now), and we've come to terms with the idea the lousy cops have families to feed and they don't make enough on their puny salary down here ( I refuse to think they are all into the drug trade). After spending a little more time here in Peru we have decided we like it alot. Here are a few reasons why!!

Ken can't wipe the grin off his face, anything this much fun just can't be legal! Dune buggy rides at Haucachina with the driver straight out of the Dakar. Hair straight back!!

Stand on that board? Not a chance, who was I kidding? But going down face first at 70 kph, no problem!

It's a bird, it's a plane no it's a tree!

Nasca lines, 800 lines, 300 figures and over 70 animals. What are they? Who made them? Calendars and stories of life made by people living 700 ad? Ancient walkways and paths made by extraterrestrials? Or a little fun being had by those guys on those hallucinogenic drugs? We don't know but they were cool man!

They are just too cute to look at but don't get too close. These little guys and their hurders were the only thing we saw at 14962 ft.

Suzie didn't miss a beat at this elevation, lacked just a tad of power but all the same she made it to Cusco for her oil change and was ready and rareing to go.

Ready and rareing to go until the hail storm, that is. It came and went within a few hours, thankfully. It left a mess in the streets, created kaos with the taxi drivers, and broke the waffled plastic roof on our bathroom in our hotel room but...nothing like home.

You can't go to Peru without getting the famous picture at Machu Picchu. A little rain, a little fog but the day was perfect for a walk around the ruins.

It's always nice to run into fellow bikers.

Three guys from Brazil, and a girl from Australia (hey where is here boyfriend? a mile up the road?)

A tour to villages built out in the middle of Lake Titicaca. The islands, houses and boat transportation are all made of reeds, they float.

Peru is definately more than garbage, rock and sand. I want to come back and do some hiking in the Andes, maybe the Inca trail, another time. Now it is time to make tracks south to Bolivia and one more country closer to Ushuaia.