Days 1-6, here Hours chugging along slowly in the Volkswagen, piled on top of each other as the monotonous desert roads slide past the windows. Long pauses to cool a rapidly overheating motor. Hours more broken down and waiting in the drugging heat for the local mechanic of a dusty anonymous town to appear from [...]
#ColombiaOrBust didn’t go exactly as planned: I made it to within a few hours drive of the Colombian border with Ecuador and regretfully turned back, leaving my Argentine ches, Diego, Alejandro and Ari, to head on without me while I began the long haul back to Cusco in time to meet Mum when she arrives on [...]
Sunday, mid-afternoon. It seems like all of Trujillo has escaped from the sweat and grime of a summer’s day in the city to the rocky, charming but now way-too-crowded beach of Huanchaco. It’s the last day of my beach holiday, and I’m hoping for a miraculous three-shade deepening of my tan in the few hours [...]
Milagro, Trujillo, Peru. In what I hope was not a deliberate act of irony, the barrio’s name means miracle. It’s hot and dusty and dry, and I’m reminded of my first trip outside of Lima, to discover to my surprise that much of Peru’s coastal region was featureless sandy desert. I’m with Leander, Helen and [...]
