Oops. We're in Peru

Have you ever woken up one morning and kind of accidentally found yourself in another country?  Ok, it's happened to me a few times, but I don't think that's normal. I really don't know what happened. I woke up earlier than everyone else, so I went to the internet cafe and posted my blog and answered a few emails. I went back to the room and got the other guys and we went back to a different cafe to work on our finances and answer the rest of our emails. After another call to our person who was showing us around, we just couldn't seem to catch each other. We decided to go to the bus terminal and research bus tickets for tomorrow.

 

Before I knew it we had found a bus ticket that was leaving in 2 hours. We sprinted back to the hostal, grabbed our stuff ate some lunch and our on our way to Peru.

 

You should probably know that we bought our tickets to fly home on Nov 14 from Lima, Peru. So anywhere we go from this point, we are going to have to return to Lima. With our end date fixed, if we want to go farther south, we need to get there soon.

 

A few days ago, we spent a lot of time praying about and discussing our schedule. The short version is that we are not going to Argentina and we are going to Bolivia?  Once we started looking at our schedule, it was pretty obvious. The original thing that kept us out of Bolivia was that there is a $135 visa to enter it (it's good for 5 years), but when we started looking at it, we were going to spend that in bus rides from Chile to Buenos Aires and back, and we would save at least 100 hours on the bus by going to Bolivia instead. It's supposed to be an amazing country.

 

Also, by shortening the trip from the three months to two months, it has allowed us to expend our daily budget. Now we don't have to draw straws to see who's fasting each day and our bathrooms are attached to our hotel room. Last night they even gave us SHAMPOO in our hotel room. That's a first on this trip. For the last 40 days I have been using my 5 in 1 that I put in a 12 oz coke bottle. Well a week ago, I downsized to an 8 oz bottle. What's 5 in 1?  On this trip it has been my shampoo, conditioner, body wash, hand soap, and laundry detergent. Seriously. It's versatile stuff. I kinda figured if it's good enough to get the stank off my body, it would probably work on my clothes.

 

It also looks like we are going to get to go to Macchu Pichu (google it) and a few other cool places along the way.

 

I had mixed emotions about ordering our plane tickets home. It will be sad for this trip to come to an end. We have really bonded as a group. After 40 days we haven't really had any fights and we are just really enjoying what we're doing. On the other hand I'm ready to be back in the US. I'm just sad the Ft. Lauderdale airport doesn't have a Taco Bell for our 6 hour layover.