Just a little funny story. The other day we went to one of the many hole-in-the-wall restaurants you see on practically every street in Peru. Most of these little places will have a menu del dia (menu of the day) that lists two or three entree choices and includes soup, salad, drink and a small dessert for a set price. As usual, the entree names were in Spanish, so we tried to understand the best we could what was in…
We rode a bus from Lima to Huaraz and it wasn’t bad at all. It was a 9 hour trip and cost 100 Soles for the two of us (about $30). The bus seats were comfortable and they even showed movies, albeit in Español ( however one of the movies they showed was very violent and I worried about the children onboard). The bus even stopped for lunch so we were happy about that. Huaraz is known for adventure travel…
After the traffic cleared from the marathon on Saturday, we went to a boxing event. Our tickets only cost 30 Soles each. That’s less than $10 a piece! We took Uber to the Miguel Grau Coliseo ( only 21 Soles) and really enjoyed the boxing matches. Our cell phones weren’t working from the Coliseo when it was time to go back to the hotel so we took a taxi. The taxi was so old and decrepit (and so was the…
We have been traveling for a little over a month now and have had such a great time. We plan to fill in the gaps of what we’ve been doing in future posts, but thought we would show what we’re up to right now first. It’s so fortuitous that the Pan Am games are here in Peru! We had planned to come back to Lima to regroup and plan where to go next, so while we’re here, we are going…
Hi! We thought we would start our blog with a quick summary of the first 6 months of our year. If you’re only interested in our travels, you can skip this part! You probably already know that we retired at the end of 2018 and had been planning to spend our first few years of retirement traveling down in South America. But before we could start traveling, we had to lighten our load a bit – – by selling our…