The great Peruvian Expedition (Beta*)

*"Beta" either from computer programming meaning “in design mode” or from climbing meaning ”information about a route".

For those of you who have inquiring minds and would like to know the detailed itenarary for my and Jenny’s trip to Peru, this is not an ideal location. If you want a rough sketch of our trip, you are at the right spot.

We will begin on April 19 in the year of 2008. Our first flight will be with the MN born NWA airlines and will be taking us to Miami for an evening of relaxation. Now no South American adventure would be complete without a visit to Columbia and their fine airfields. We will be landing and departing Bogota without incident, no matter what anyone tries to say or do otherwise. Then we will continue on to Lime, Peru. From what I know about Lima, it is like Seattle without the pop culure and a lot of homeless people. Lima is wet and grey and surrounded by a giant shantie town. People often wonder why they are in Peru when they see Lima. We will spend a day in Lima and then will head off to Cuzco.

Cuzco was the center of the Incan Empire, and no matter what people say about the Spanish being evil for killing the Incans, just remember the Incans killed all the people there well before the Spanish came. We will then head out on the Incan Trail for a 4 day trek to Machu Pichu. The difference between trekking and backpacking is that trekking is what rich tourists do, when they have porters and pack animals carry all their gear. Machu Pichu is one of the most famous ancient ruins in the world and is beautifully perched atop the Andes. It is delicately speckled with thousands of tourists at any given point in time. We will then spend the night at the base of the ruins in a somewhat posh hotel before taking a train back to Cuzco the next day.

At this point the trip gets murky and dream like. I kinda remember going to Lake Titicaca, a huge lake high in the mountains. I believe people live on floating islands of reads with tiny read huts on the lake. I also think there was something to do with the deepest canyon on land on the planet earth. Was there something with rock climbing or rafting??? Man it’s just not clear to me. Wait, I think we went surfing somewhere.

Who knows?

When it all cleared up we are a week later and sitting in Lima again. Ahhhh, get out of Lima! Book a flight to the Amazon to stay safe. Spend 2 weeks in the Amazon looking for Tarzan. We will be staying at a place with cool treehouse type huts and lots of free tours and educational experiences. The place is famous for its Amazon survival course and jenny really wants to hunt down some poison arrow frogs. I think a monkey will steal my hat. I would like to camp out in the middle of the rain forest for some alone time in death’s grip. Ok we had our fun now back to Lima.

Somewhere along the way someone said something to us about some sort of thing that we should definitely do if we have the time. So now we are going to do that for a week.

Hop a plane from Peru to Bogota, run though airport in 65 minutes and hop a plane to the US. Get deloused by customs and spend 2 days relaxing in Miami by the pool.

Fly home June 2 of the year 2008.