The Wandering Enginerds

Our first stop in “Rurre” (as the locals call Rurrenabaque) was at our excursion company to hear a very brief description of what was to happen the next day, confirm information, pay our national park entrance fees, and meet our guide. After this, we proceeded to our local hostel where it looked like all of the hostel-goers were already a few adult beverages deep into drinking games and gave us the awkward “hello” as we walked by. Before finding a spot for dinner we took a quick walk around Rurre and hiked up about 600’ (for me), and maybe another 100’ for Jenna, to find a good viewpoint to catch an awesome sunset over the small town and Amazon jungle in the distance. Finding the trail was a tad interesting, however, since we basically walked through someone’s property to find the broken concrete steps that start the trail up. It wouldn’t be an adventure if everything was 100% how it’s supposed to be though. Eventually we found a decent place to order individual pizzas – no where near...

Drinking Pisco Sours in Cusco June 28 We were told not to spend much time in Lima. However, we ended up really liking it and thinking we could totally live there! We stayed in (and did not venture out of) the Miraflores neighborhood.  It's a safer and very well off area.  Lots of rich people here.  Doug had mentioned that there was surfing in Lima, which I had no idea about, and naturally I pounced on the opportunity.  So we went over to the beach in the morning and a Brazilian dude gave us a lesson and then turned us loose to shred the gnar :) Now, we had been surfing once before in California (thanks Guerra!) and it didn't necessarily go so well so our standards weren't set high.  This time I think the waves were much more favorable and we were totally rocking it!  Of course there were some epic falls and we got destroyed by some waves multiple times, but we don't need to focus on that part (wish someone would have had us on video).  All in...