Lifeinthekeyofme

After spending 6 hours at the fabulous Lima airport, and enjoying some Starbucks and Mickey D’s, I finally made it to Cuzco. We sat on the plane for about an hour, and later I found out that LAN Airlines canceled ALL THEIR FLIGHTS to Cuzco today because of the shitty weather. So I guess I lucked out, though makes me wonder what will become of my flight out of Cuzco to Guayaquil. Well, for now…who cares.

I met up with my dear friend Erin and her sister Alyssa. They both had planned to be here a long time before I did, but in changing my itinerary a few weeks ago, I ended up going through Lima and decided to make Cuzco part of the trip. We decided to head up to visit Saqsaywaman and it was just amazing. It was raining like crazy when we left the Plaza but it cleared up by the time we got up to the park. Amongst the heavy breathing (I’m out of shape), I couldn’t help but be overcome with amazing emotions about being in such a beautiful place. Check out the vid and the pics and let me know what you think

That bastard insomnia has me up again , and now I’m struggling with the decision of whether I should go to Quito or not. I have moved up my trip to South America by a week, I am leaving on Monday the 29th. But in doing so, I have removed a week from the original trip, so I’m only there a month. Yes, I know…it’s still a month and I’m sure some of you are thinking “F-you Roman, you have a month!”

My planned destinations were originally:
Lima
Cuzco
Quito
Santiago
Mendoza
Buenos Aires
Montevideo

It’s looking that it might be more like this:
Lima
Cuzco
Mendoza
Buenos Aires
Montevideo

I wanted to go to Quito to check out the Volcanoes as well as possibly visit some of our MicroPlace borrowers. But now I’m wondering if I should just focus on the wine in Mendoza and the beaches of Uruguay. And here I thought I was not indecisive…

It’s nearly 12:30 in the morning and I’ve been on this laptop for about 5 hours attempting to create an agenda for my trip. As my title implies, I don’t necessarily think I’m indecisive, I just like to analyze things to get the biggest bang for my time.  I keep re-thinking my plan to start in Santiago, because ideally I would want to load up on wine from Argentina AND Chile and then take it back to the States. I doubt I could lug around a case of wine to Cuzco, Quito and then Lima.

So what does this mean? Pretty much I have an airline charge in my future, rats. And Machu Picchu, and the Inca trail…god, do I really want to walk that much?? I have the worst back this side of Greg Oden.

I am seeing the Doctor today (Monday), everyone please send me karma that he sends me home with soma and xanax. Though with my luck, I’ll come home with an overpriced prescription for 800mg ibuprofen.

Over and out!