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Lima, un p'tit tour et puis s'en va...
So we arrived the day before yesterday in Lima with a strange feeling. First the bus arrived early (6 and a half hour instead of 8). Then we wondered if we had taken the wrong bus because what we saw was so different from all the cities in South America we had seen so far. Lima seemed to be just a huge North American metropolis with skyscrapers, …
S.O.S.
We woke up in the morning, made a great fire and brewed some coffee and went for a walk on the beach, down to check out the big steel fishing boat that is grounded on the beach in Caleta. This boat ended up beached like this because the crew mistook the lights on the beach in Caleta for a lighthouse up the coast a few miles and ended up beaching …
Rodrigo and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
After 12 days of battling with FedEx and the Peruvian Customs office (they delayed release of the package for several reasons, the main one being they had no record of us entering the country at the airport b/c we entered by motorcycle...) we could finally get the Buell up and running again.
We had met a really cool dude and freelance bike …
Tania the Tiger and the Peruvian Customs
We arrived at Eurobackpackers Hostel in Miraflores Lima Peru in a tow truck. The Buell's rear wheel bearings were shot from too many times taking the rear wheel off by the "montallantas" - guys who patch tires along the road for about $2. They never had grease to re-grease the rear axle and they were shot.
We chose Eurobackpackers Hostel …
Idle Time in Lima
We were in Lima for 16 days - we spent most of the time there trying to get FedEx to deliver the packages we needed to get the bike fixed (see other entry). We got a lot of rest and we didnt really do much - we watched a Parade, we did a lot of walking on the beach in Miraflores and through different neighborhoods. We won some money at the Casino, …