Round the World in 150 days

The last few days in Peru were so much fun!  We sand boarded and dune buggied in Icka, bodysurfed on one of Lima’s finer beaches, and enjoyed the sun before our venture to Europe.

We hired Rosa, our driver, and Fabrizio, our great guide, to go to Icka with us. The dunes were so amazing, and felt like a roller coaster!  We had a riot going up, down, and around on the desert hills.  Boarding down it was also a lot of fun.  While Derek took it on like a snow board, the rest of us more reasonable people rode down the slopes like a toboggan down the snow.  The first and smallest hill, we all went down with grins; however, the second was a bit more entertaining. ..

First Travis slid down the slope, closely followed by dad.  Derek then had his attempt of going down, then Fabrizio, followed by me.   Mom wasn’t as fortunate however.  A little ways down the middle slope, she turned and rolled down the hill, sadly crashing.  She held up her hands, motioning she was fine, until a minute later she curled up wither hands on her head.

When she had fallen, the board had cut the top of her head, leaving a big gash in her hairline that was bleeding pretty badly.  Then off went her white lace shirt, to soak up the blood.  The dune buggy driver took us back to Icka.  Then Rosa drove us to the closest midi-center where Fabrizio accompanied mom and dad inside.  They walked right past the line, to the front and asked to get mom fixed up.  The people at the front desk told them it would be about 300 soles, roughly $100.  Then Fabrizio said that that was too much and rushed mom and dad out, back to the car.  A few minutes later, he came out with a bag.  Inside it had rubber gloves, a sterilized needle, stitch string, a pair of scissors, sterile liquid, and a bottle of freezing.  Fabrizio, being a surgical dentist-in-training stitched up mom in the parking lot of the midi-center!!!! Always an adventure! J

The beach trip was also really fun! We enjoyed going out of the city to a small town/side subdivision of Lima.  There were barely any people there. Only some surfers way out, that were catching the perfect waves.  After sun bathing and body surfing, we went a nice little restaurant that had great seafood!  The perfect day trip, followed by a goodnight’s sleep at Bronco’s three B.

We left Peru on an early flight to Colombia.  We stayed at the airport for our almost seven hour layover, where I wrote a great essay on the globalization of Peru. That is getting forwarded to my teachers back home, of course!  After we had the night flight to Spain via Avianca Airlines. 

Peru was such a great experience, and a lot of fun. I really enjoyed Macho Peachu, the Sacred Valley, sand boarding, and driving!!!!!!  What a great first leg of the trip!  Spain next! Super excited!!