crucial

Unfortunately I´ve had severe chills and headache for a few days. I spent yesterday lying comatose to try to shake it before our next adventures.

Last night had dinner with Matt Grace and a bunch of his friends, mostly ex-Lima people that have moved up to Cusco. I´ve known Matt for 20 years. Really nice evening, home cooked Andean food. Talking about cumbia, heavy metal in South America. Limenos talk much faster than Cusco natives.

Cusco is really beautiful, a green plateau town, former capital of the Inca empire. 4000 meters up, covered with churches and plazas. I´ll see it properly today.

oof kopfschmerz

Lima is a big South American town, sprawling like Mexico City. The buses and the repetitive concrete construction remind me of India (and I know Africa will be like that when I get there). This is most of the earth : buses, honking, dust, concrete. Compared to India, Peru is sedate and lacks the insanity of motorcycles, bicycles, and herds of rampaging black buffalos in the middle of traffic.

I’m with my dad. We ate amazing food, got driven around the nice parts of town and caught only a glimpse of the rest of Lima with its shanty towns running up the hills Favela-style. My dad pointed out that in the US it would be the rich people who got the hills.

Really good food in Peru, just as promised.

I’m going to Peru with my Dad, leaving in 7 hours.
I’ll post some things, strictly Internet cafe, no laptop, as little computer as possible.

I’ve been mostly using twitter lately because it keeps me from writing these long essays that you all only read the first para of.

so I’ll keep it tight, a’ight ?

my brain is over-pulsed by the attention stream of internet.

highlight in Peru for me: staying 5 nights in the rainforest at an eco-lodge. and seeing Matt Grace, a very good friend of mine who has been living in Cusco and Bolivia doing investigative journalism.

I hope its not fucking pan flutes all day long.