At this moment, I am sitting on a couch, eating a bowl of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers over some caesar dressing, drinking a mocha and dressed in a T-shirt and shorts…At this moment, I am appreciating our breathtaking view of mountains outside of our backyard and soaking in the heat to the tune of 75ish degrees, without humidity and always sunny. At this moment, I am so happy…but it took me five days and 48.5 hours on 6 different busses to get to this point…let me recap my traveling days for you…
Saturday Night: 10:30pm
- All five of us, plus our driver fit into a small five-person car with all our luggage (let me remind you that we have a day pack, which is usually a backpack, a large traveling pack for our backs, plus a guitar and my very annoying, but infamous, Mickey Mouse bag) and got dropped off in Trujillo. We then took a 10 hour bus ride from Trujillo to Lima.
Sunday Morning: Roughly 11:00am
- Arrived in Lima just in time to catch another bus to take us to Arrequipa, Peru. This bus ride was 17 hours…I have NEVER been on a bus that long!
Monday: Sometime
- We arrived in Arrequipa, just to have a three hour wait until our next bus came to take us to Puno, Peru. 6 hours on this bus, we were finally at our first hostel.
Tuesday has been lost in time and space
Wednesday: Lack Titicaca! (maybe more blogs to come about that)
Thursday: 6:30am…that’s right A.M.
- Fortunately, this bus was only 4 hours (from Puno to the Bolivian border) Unfortunately, it took us an hour and a half to get our Bolivian visas…but they do look pretty cool and take up a full page in my passport!!
Thursday: Noonish
- Physically walk across the Peruvian border to enter Bolivia
- Take a bus from Copacabana, Bolivia to La Paz, Bolivia’s capital…only three hours
Thursday: Night
- Although I would have been completely fine with staying in La Paz all month, we eventually took our final bus from La Paz to the town we are staying in for the next month, Cochabamba…yupp that is what it is really called…and that one only took 8.5 hours on the steepest mountain I’ve ever seen!
And now, I am going to take a nap 🙂
