something pretty, cusco
sky, cusco
bus from cusco to puno...takes all day and costs $5. every time the bus is waiting to pull out from a station, most of the passangers (kids, too) start stomping their feet and yelling "vamos!!"
skies in the altiplano, near lake titicaca
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Juliaca
my first Chifa!
Puno
bike wash
apparently 13000' is still below the pondscum-line
seriously...the chocolate cake here is close to spectacular
miranda vs. sunscreen
altiplano skies
dinner
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los uros, artificial islands in titicaca. formerly an indigenous fishing community, now supported almost entirely by giving tours.
middle of nowhere
broken, bus, middle of nowhere, south peru
taken from the bus window...far south coast...some of the most spectacular scenery in the world
miraflores, lima
yup...tony roma's on the peruvian coast. god bless.
miraflores (look at the flowers)
big puddle, lima
Lucho and Abuelo, casa de ciclistas
lucho riding north
cheating
hard to capture...but more great scenery
fires
Abuelo had a 3 hour head start...somehow we caught up to him in a little more than an hour. of course, he's almost 3x my age
don lucho and abuelo, in search of windmills on their way to chiclayo
outside the casa de ciclistas
lucho and me
the panamerica huggin the coast
cool little dune-y mountains
"freedom is in the mouth of the world"....a seemingly strange ad from an agro company, but it makes sense enough
more panam
all cleaned up
inland, leaving chao and the rest of the world behind
more sandy things
turnoff to the private road
heading off to the brown yonder
bicycles and sand do not mix
view from the espejo...note only semi-ridiculous tan, creditable to new long-sleeve jersey
new gloves
going nowhere reasonably fast
rough attempt at a self portrait.
self portrait while eating mint choc chip cookies. pretty hot here (the weather, not me)
the beginning of endless picturesque river valley scenery
road. not sure why this was included
52k later, back on the pavement...doesn't last long, though
the double nickel lives on in northcentral peru
i knew this was coming. with a true mountain bike (i.e. mine before i killed the suspension and knobby tires and loaded it with 35 lbs of crap) it's not a big deal. on a touring bike, i.e. mine, it's not a whole lot of fun.
etc
damn. crazyhair.
somewhat comforting to see some medical presence. on this road i saw a car or bus about every 15 minutes
mint choc chip cookies. awesome
definitely not velveeta....marg. and noodles.
campsite 1st night
wanted quite badly to be running with one like this
lots of this. well over 90 degrees between 10 and 3
mirador, tiny "village" in the middle of nowhere
proof that i forded the stream by foot
miners
wild donkeys
sometimes i just had to laugh
campsite night 2, near huallanca
3rd flat in 3 days. was a rockslide pointed right at me while i was patching
internet cafe in huallanca
power plant, huallanca
a particularly steep stretch
beginning of the much written-about canon del paso. peruvian drivers have ABSOLUTELY NO problem following the horn honking rule.
tunnels
tunnel
pavement! speeds instantly double
partly due to this. note windswept grass
av arequipa, miraflores, lima
parque kenedy, miraflores
just in case you forgot where you are....
sunset
tracking down a bike box was not easy
last views
seriously...there must be 400 lbs of other people's worthless shit on top of my bike. good thing it's a bike
michigan, greeting me with cold rain...
...and lots of nothing
hills!....err....hill
almost home
