Today, I slept late trying to recover from my trek. Afterwards I got ready for the day and took my laundry to a place to get cleaned. After treking for 5 days your clothes, especially your socks become very, very stinky. Always pack more socks and underwear then you think you need and if you are going treking for a long time wear underarmor underwear, you´ll thank yourself later. Now I´m blogging like crazy so that you can read about my adventures. The plan is that this afternoon I am going to book my bus for Puno for tomorrow. The bus I want to take stops at 5 different sites in Peru on the way.
Well, here is my update for the day. I did not get the bus that I wanted and instead I plan on going to the bus station in the morning and booking a bus from Cusco to Puno then. Looking for the bus company though, I found the USA Consulate to Peru in Cusco. It made me feel good to see the Great Seal hanging on a building.
The rest of the day I walked around Cusco. I treated myself to a dinner of fairly American pasta. It was pretty good. I also spent sometime in a square that was filled with artists who were just working on things in the square. I spent quite a bit of time just chilling there watching them.
I was haggled by a woman to buy a gord (sp?) that was etched with a really cool design. I bought it for 25 soles or about 8 dollars. I ended up going back to the hostal rather early. I talked with Ann a woman from the UK. She seemed rather old to be hanging out in a hostal, like late 50´s or early 60´s. She was traveling around the world just by herself. Quite the treker. I also went up to my bedroom early. I played solitare on my laptop until about 11pm and then I went to bed.
6 comments:
Hey matt,
The Library keeps on calling saying that you have some over due books. We were wondering which ones they were and which library to turn them back to. Hope you are having a good time.
Glad we got the library situation figured out! I know that I returned it! :)
For those of you reading these comments.
The library comment above was actually posted by Matthew's sister, Kelsey. She was supposed to email Matthew with this information, not post it on his blog for all to see that he is a "over due library criminal".
FYI: We have posted the bail and found the lost book, paid the fines and plea bargained with the librarian(who happens to be the mom of one of Matthew's friends) and he is in the clear. No warrants are out for his arrest ! ) LOL
Matt, I should have suggested to you to get a heavy duty pair of hiking sandals. That is all I used in India. You wouldn't have had to bother with socks then. It may have been to cold anyway. I should have thought of this before you left. I suppose you did fine without.
Yeah, it would have been pretty cold. Maybe for the Turkey, Jordan j-term though. I may have to get some new shoes though. Everyone here has really nice shoes and after the mountains of Peru and the trek, these are looking pretty scruffy. We will see. I'll probably hold out for a while. The other day, my family and I went to the shoe store at the mall. I found this amazing pair of dress shoes. They were so cool. Too expensive, but someday, I may be able to have a really, really nice pair of dress shoes.
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