Hey friends,
Well, from Mendoza we headed north to a small mountain town called Cafayate in a valley filled with yet more wineries. We skipped out on doing any more wine tours but enjoyed seeing the town from our dusty, dirty little $3 campsite. Taylor hiked a couple of hours in the sun to see a series of waterfalls on the Rio Colorado, and got to cool off by swimming in a beautiful spot. Unfortunately the pictures have all been unloaded to CDs that are on their way back to the States now. Meanwhile Melissa was busy doing a phone interview with Springfield College, where she just this evening learned she was accepted for grad school!
From Cafayate we slogged a long, long way on a series of buses up through Bolivia (beautiful country, minus all the trash that people throw everywhere), straight through to Lake Titicaca and Peru, winding up in Cusco in time to meet Taylor's mom Lynn the day after she landed. We've now spent the better part of a week in Cuzco, staying with Lynn's shaman friend Juan and his family. We spent several days driving around Cuzco's surroundings, including the Sacred Valley, seeing one impressive set of Incan ruins after another. Usually we arrived early and got the ruins all to ourselves, with our own personal guide recounting humorous legends and giving explanations of all the spiritual architecture from his shamanic perspective. It's been magical.
Tomorrow we leave Cuzco for Aguas Calientes and the crown jewel of South American archeology, Machu Piccu!
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