P-E-R-OOOOO!

It has been a long road to get here, but not at all bad. set off from the beautiful and tranquil villcabamba a few days ago, and back to colonial Loja for a night in with t´telly.

Early morning bus to Piura, Peru. Took about 9 hours via the craziness of the border post, where sweaty men send you from office to office from behind their communist-bloc typewriters.

nae bother.

Piura wasn´t a gem really, but we met some friendly people. Taxi drivers try to rip you off with a big smile, and when you tell them to get tae falkirk, they jovially agree to your (fair) price, and continue like nothing happened.

Nae botha...

Today was a 7hr bus journey with a rice-and-crabs stop in chiclayo. Now in Huanchaco, where these guys in the photo paddle their makeshift rafts out to beyond the breakers, fish, then surf back withtheir catch. They have been doing this for 100´s of years, so don´t tell me that those guys in California were the 1st surfers. as a skater, i am here to pay homage to these fishermen. what will be their reaction?

some days of surfing and seafood here, before the trials of lima. Plan to be there as short a time as possible, before the 30hour journey through the andes to Ayuachco and then Cuzco.

tired now after endless (well, seven) hours gazing at deserts, occasional shacks, the blue gray distance of the Cordillera (andes mountain range) and the thai-esque tuk-tuks weaving thru the traffic.

time for beans´n´rice

hasta la pasta amigos y amigas...