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So I have not held up to the deal. I have stopped blogging again. I was on a good little streak there for a while. Since I last wrote all lot has changed and I have come many a weary mile. The last time I write I believe I was in Potosi, Bolivia. Home to the miners carnival which I still have to tell you all about. But just as a quick run down of places I`ve been and things that Ive done since then. From Potosi, I went to Sucre, Bolivia, the judicial capital of the country. Didn`t accomplish all that much there to be honest. Went to a Unesco World Heritage site. Saw some dinosaur footprints that have been saved in a rock formation. From there it was to La Paz Bolivia and that is where the shit show really began. La Paz is the second Bolivian capital and the highest capital in the world. Its been a blur since. In La Paz some friends and I took a bike ride down what is known as the worlds most dangerous road. It is 60km long all downhill, all dirt, and only about 5 meters wide. It was quite scary but fun as hell. One of the fastest kids in the group was still drunk when he woke up the morning of the bike ride. The booze must have helped him not think about that fact that death wasn`t all that far away.

From La Paz we went to Copacabana, Bolivia which is where Lake Titicaca is. that world means stone/grey Puma in the native language, Quechua. I was sick as a dog in that city tho didn't do that much but check out the lake. I'm pretty sure my mistake was drinking the Bolivian water. Don't do that. From there it was into Peru. Im not going to lie tho I was a little upset to leave Bolivia. It is truly an amazing country. However, it was great leaving the altiplano. it was the first time in a month or more that I had been below 2500 meters. Again, Denver, "mile high city," eat your heart out. Our first stop was Puno. by our I mean my Irish friends Dan, Sean, and Jono, my English friend Dan, and my Australian friend Anabel. Puno is famous for not only being on Lake Titicaca, which is the "highest navigable lake in the world" (debatable), but also for being home to the floating islands. These are islands that native tribes that have existed since before the Incans build out of reeds from the lake and they ive on them. They anchor themselves to the lake bed or move around as they see fit. It was actually really cool to see these things and the people who lived on these islands were extraordinarily nice. From there we went to Cusco. We stayed in our second Loki hostel since La Paz. Let me tell you, it is hard to leave a Loki hostel. Each one is its own bat shit crazy party. Quite fun. In Cusco I decided to do a four day 100km trek to Machu Pichu. It was one of the best experiences of my life. The trek was amazing and seeing Machu Pichu in all its glory at the end of it was fantastic. Irish Dan and I walked the whole way...including the 1400 steps from the city below Machu Pichu, Aguas Calientes, all the way to Machu Pichu itself. That was done at 430am and it took almost two hours of gravitydefying climbing in weather that was suprisingly warm. by warm i mean stiflingly hot.

After Cuzco and Machu Pichu, the group kind of broke up leaving English Dan and I on our way to Arequipa. There we just wandered around the city and met up with another English guy Gary. From Arequipa we went to Nazca and flew over the Nazca lines. Google image search them. They were constructed many many years ago by an unknown civilization and no one knows exactly what they are. The plane ride was terrifying,. From there Dan and I went to Hucachina. This is a tiny oasis in the middle of the desert outside of Ica. WE went dune buggying and sandboarding down massive dunes. It was actually a really beautiful place. If not blazing hot. From Ica it was to Lima and the third and final Loki hostel. Im not gonna lie, Lima was a write off. WE really didn't do all that much but there wasnt all that much to do. We also picked up a fourth group member, Bob from Australia. From there we came to Trujillo which is a beach town 10 hours away from Ecuador, and that is where I am sitting right now. I will hopefully be in Ecuador on Friday. WE are taking a night bus tonight about 8 or 10 hours to Mancora which is close to the Ecuadorian border and we will be chilling there for an night or two then off again. Trying to speed toward Ecuador in a little over two weeks. I wonder where ill be for my birthday? Take it easy all ill try to go a little more in depth on some of my travels in the next few days. Later