30.10.08

Recent Jaunts

1- After being stuck in Cusco waiting for riots to break on the road to Puno (Lake Titicaca), we made some arrangments for alternative transport. Truck driver Guido stuffed five gringos in his ride and we set out on backroads for 10 hours, stopping only for a little snack of sheep and potatoes and a couple of road blockades set by fierce and adament indigenous women.

2- Always ride the cheapest transport if you want to be a part of drug busts in the middle of the night.

3- Today, after a confused and hilarious exchange of broken Spanish, we helped our Chilean old lady friend sneak bras and underwear over the Chile/Argentina border.

4- And sadly, more to rack up our claims for travel insurance as we found ourselves cashless and camera-less after a bus ride to the border of Peru and Chile.

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