First day in Lima. Arrived nicely after an eight hour flight where Megan and myself spent the entire time watching House and playing Chess. Finding our taxi was quick enough but we were both halfway convinced that we were being kidnapped until the driver offered to roll up the windows, as Megan put it; "If he was kidnapping us he wouldn't have d...

Ok so I said I wasn´t going to let myself get sucked in by Cusco and I was fully aware of this bold claim even on the fourth consecutive night I found myself sat in the hostel garden at 6am when I decided to book a flight to Lima instead of catching a bus so I could have "just one more night" (a phrase I said approximately 5 mornings on the trot...

Hello Family and Friends, Another busy week has gone by and just like clock work a new one has started. Funny how that works. Just got all the kids off to school, not an easy trick on a foggy Monday morning. Barring the nearly constant battle with the eldest over hair and uncool footwear and general malaise of an adolescent female it went withou...

Machu Picchu updates: We flew to Lima, anxious to get back on the ship but we were taken on a walking/bus tour of Lima. Beautiful city, very clean, modern & worth the tour. One of the passengers on the tour had to spend the night in a Cusco hospital due to altitude sickness. Onboard, a retired surgeon asked me if anyone had died.????? He & his w...

About a year ago, Jim started corresponding with Giovanni Núñes (a young man he discipled extensively when we lived here and who was commended to fulltime work before we left the country) concerning reopening an Emmaus office in Lima. Then last October he made a trip to Peru to encourage the Emmaus work in Trujillo and train people to start it i...

After 8 hours of flight to New York, where I had a mad rush in transit, then another 7 hours, I´ve finally arrived in Lima...I was totally whacked!!! Glad I had the hostel to pick me up at the airport (boy, there are some really scary places in lima...passed a few streets that makes some of he roughest part of london seem like the royal borough ...

5/8 Fly to Lima, spend the night in preparation for a long day of travel tomorrow. Kind of crazy to go south from Quito about 600 miles to Lima so I can fly north the next day almost over Quito to get to Miami, but that's the price of using frequent flier miles. Saved lots of money, but the flights are not quite so direct.

10th April After getting back from the Galapagos we spent one night in Ecuador and then bought our bus ticket to Lima, Peru. This sounded like a stupid thing to do as it is a very long way to travel by bus. The journey was going to take 24hrs down the Pan-America highway. We were pleasantly surprised however to find that we were traveling Royal ...

Dan has finally managed to get his way & has sneaked a change of plan upon us. We need to get to bed early tomorrow night as we have to be at the airport at 5am to go to Buenos Aires, Argentina! Not in anyway part of our original plan but after the yummy steak Beth recommended in Mexico... at an Argentinean steak house dan has been angling for a...