I don´t really know how to talk about Christmas here.
A lot of magic and a lot of new and a lot of ordinary has happened.
A day spent urban surfing in Lima. A rendezvous with friend Jaymi in the Lima airport. Jaymi changes everything. Christmas Eve we saw a pigeon with cankels. Christmas day we flew to Cusco and Jaymi starts aclimatized to the elevation (read: lots of sleeping, eating, and cards). Boxing day we went for a walk in the morning that latest until after dark. Today we went white water rafting on the Urubamba River after several days of rain storms - great fast water.
I have large itchy things on my feet. Contending theories of causality range between poison ivy, bug bites, and athletes foot. I wishfully tell myself it is athelete´s foot. After years of athletic mediocrity, I feel like I finally made the team.
I suppose there is lots more to tell. I have at least five stories I want to go into. But blogging isn´t the same when you travel in a group. I don´t have the same deep longing for familiar social contact which I felt in Africa. I feel like the moments I´ve had here are being shared already - and the potential rewards for sharing them again by blog are therefore lessened. Sorry blog audience.
In three hours we head out on a four day trek along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. We will arrive on New Years eve and usher in 2011 in the ¨lost city¨. See you all in 2011!
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It was so good to hear your voice on Christmas Day - it made the day complete for me - the whole Robson clan was together at M&J's and the only one missing was you - until you arrived by phone.
ReplyDeleteSo glad your adventures are proceeding apace. Your descriptions of the cordillera and laguna make we want to travel again. Maybe we'll see some of the world together in years to come. I can dream.
Until the next installation, take care. Talk to you in the new year.
Your one true beauty!
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