Culture Shock! Why Doesn’t Anyone Read?
Culture Shock! Why Doesn’t Anyone Read? When traveling on long bus trips, or when we have time to kill sitting in the park, we always have a paperback or a Nookbook to pull out. What we are wondering is, why do we never see any of the locals reading? Sure, once in a while you […]
Culture Shock! Classism in South America
Here´s your latest “Culture Shock!” post, late as always. Someday we´ll get back to actually doing these on Wednesdays! Culture Shock! Classism in South America One thing we have unfortunately noticed in South America is the rampant presence of classism. Ugh, what an ugly “ism.” We didn’t see it so much in Colombia, but we […]
Perú Financial Summary
Total $ Spent=$2260.90 Total Days=43 Average =$52.58 per day or $26.29 per person per day Total Inca Trail expenses=$1079.19 Total Perú without the Inca Trail=$1181.71 Average $27.48 per day or $13.74 per person per day without the Inca Trail We chose to include the $400 Inca Trail deposit in our Perú stats, even though we paid […]
We Hate Loki
Before reading this, read yesterday’s post, because the two together are meant to appropriately demonstrate our love-hate relationship with Loki Hostel. It was a blast running the bar. The experience we gained because of it will definitely help us if we ever want bartending jobs in the future. But another thing that we really like […]
We Love Loki
“LOKI LOKI LOKI!” someone shouts as we all raise our glasses. “Oi oi oi!” we respond in Aussie fashion, slam our glasses down on the bar, and proceed to chug our Blood Bombs. A Blood Bomb consists of a shot of mostly vodka with a few drops of grenadine dropped into a half-glass of Red […]
1/3 of our South American Travel Highlights – Medellin
As of January 27, we’ve been in South America for three months! That’s about 1/3 of the total time we’ll be down here (assuming money lasts) so it’s quite a milestone. Sometimes I feel like we’ve been on the road forever and other times it feels like it was just yesterday we landed in Medellin. […]
Culture Shock! Everything is OTC
Culture Shock! Everything is OTC Guys, we totally forgot to post a Culture Shock! on Wednesday! Woops! We were too focused on finishing the Inca Trail epic. So here it is for this week, better late than never! So far on our adventure we haven’t needed to use our health insurance. That is not because […]
Inca Trail: Day Four
The horrifying hour of 4am came WAY too soon. We had been dead to the world in our unexpected hostel bed and trying to pull ourselves out of bed was extremely difficult. Not only because of how tired we were, but because our leg muscles were practically incapable of motion after the grueling 22km of […]
A love letter to my new favorite condiment… Peruvian mayo
Oh mayonnaise, my saucy lover, I don’t really know why I’ve become so obsessed with you. You just go so well with…everything. Especially the ever-present easy vegetarian snack of “papas fritas.” Thick, soft, salty french fries in need of only some sort of dipping sauce to make them perfect. I’ve never been a fan of […]
Inca Trail: Day Three
Day three started with bad news. Our final campsite and last 5km of the trail were closed due to landslides. This meant we would have to hike an extra 8.5km (5 miles) and enter Machu Picchu though the front entrance with all the lazy people that took the train. There were two options: hike to […]