La Estrella de Belen Lima

... the type of thing steve thrives on. a halting pop to the head and a shamefully toned talking to and we'd a been on our way. but steve froze, the owner was right there. could he pop somebody else's dog and talk scornfully right in front of the owner, in a foreign country. his hesitation nearly lost him his leg. okay, maybe an exaggeration, but maybe not had the owner not spoke up and shamed the dog himself.

with such abundant and unchaparoned cannine aggression you must develop ways ...

At first glance, the meditation ashram seemed like everything we would want in a community: Organic garden, yoga classes, meditation workshops, beach setting... but for some reason it just did not feel right. The organic garden was wonderful but was not reflected in the meager food we were served (potatoes with potatoes for lunch, a slice of apple pie for dinner), the yoga teacher did all of the poses wrong ...

Thursday 12:55 a.m.
Happy Birthday to me. I thought I’d write before I crashed for the night or maybe I should say morning. Once the plane landed and I went through immigration I waited and waited for my luggage. While waiting a met this nice Peruvian lady that has lived in New England for 10 year. She is here for 2 weeks visiting her sister. This was the slowest arrival of luggage I have ever seen - unreal. Both of her bags came before any of ...

... mir ne Coke gekauft und mich dann ins Bett geschmackt. Um 1 Uhr habe ich das Licht ausgemacht und bis heute Morgen um 10 Durchgeschlafen.
Das Wetter hier in Lima ist nicht sehr berauschend, bedeckter Himmel bei 17 Grad. Morgen gehts weiter nach Cusco, da ist besseres Wetter. So, ich werde jetzt mal was futtern und dann werde ich mal sehen was ich noch mache. Vielleicht gucke ich mir schnell noch den Pazifik an bevor es morgen in die Berge geht.......

... Peruvian employee we bought the card and loaded it onto the phone. Caryn tried calling her dad. No luck. Caryn tried calling Mike. Still no luck. The automated voice was telling us there wasn't enough money on the card. Ten more minutes of chatty Peruvian employee. I called the Moviephone help line with caffine withdrawl headache setting in. All I can think of is Starbucks. Somehow the Moviephone help line turns out to be more inefficient than anything else in Latin America...if ...

... So no good there. Ki-ki was mortified and then found another chiro which we saw the next day. The first night though we went out for dinner and found a great Chinese restaurant. Lima is full of cool bars, clubs and restaurants, with lots of nice gardens and squares around. It's a really cosmopolitan city and though we didn't see much we really liked it. The Chinese was the first meal I'd eaten in 4 or 5 days and it was FANTASTIC. The next day we ...

... and we were able to photograph throughout, albeit without flash. Next we toured the church of San Francisco, a 16th century Moorish-influenced building with perfect puzzle pieces of Nicaraguan mahogany in its décor. The most fascinating part, though, lies beneath all this in the catacombs. Until 1821, the poor were buried here in a series of wells, some 20 meters deep. After the bodies decomposed, the bones were ...

... Fortunately we were early, because by the time our orders arrived the place was jammed and had a waiting line at the door. We had wonderful meals, headed back past the crowd of still screaming girls, toward a line of taxis to get ourselves a ride to the zoo.

Maybe we've begun to understand a little about taxis. Several times we've gotten a price from a taxi that we knew was too high, and when we refused ...

... decided that the British are the coolest people I've ever met. Flight of the conchords : Have been trying to download the season for a week now. Will try to watch them all in one sitting tonight. Friends : I have surprisingly made friends here. Not like 'oh yeah, that guy was pretty cool' kindof friends, but actual 'Man, I love that guy' kindof friends. My BFF and I broke up yesterday, and I my head feels fuller, but my heart feels slightly ...

... I told him that I definitely plan on going there. When we went outside to collect the bags, there were already a group of taxi drivers waiting and offering to give rides to the city centre. They acted like a pack of lions ready to pounce on the bus passengers. I told them I wasn’t interested in a ride. One even offered to take my bag, thinking automatically that I wanted to get to central Lima. I had to tell the taxi driver several ...