I´ve been bad at updating, have many stories to add, but felt it
timely to add that I lived through an earthquake about an hour ago!!
I was in a manequin-filled dress shop waiting to have zipper on my new
pants (purchased yesterday due to the malfunctioning fly of my
previous pants) fixed when everyone jumped up ran out to the street.
Not the smartest emergency response, but it didn´t seem too major to
me, so I followed. It actually seemed quite exciting and not so scary
to me, but the shop owner was screaming, so I put on my calming street
medic hat and offered the only sensible response of calming words and
a hug offer, which she accepted. The whole thing was surreal, the
cobble stone shaking beneath us and everyone looking shocked...

In other news, I´m going on a 3 day trek to the Cañon del Colca tomorrow, and
by Saturday plan to be in Cusco to meet up with Jacob, who´s flying
in. Oh, gotta run, hit send, internet about to shut down!!