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It seems that we booked this trip years ago but it's only been a little more than eight months. We've wanted to go for ages but it finally took watching a motorcycling series with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman to convince us that it was time.
No, we're not riding motorcycles across several countries. But we are going to one of the places where they stopped along their travels.
For decades, I've wanted to visit the historic Inca site of Machu Picchu, in Peru. I wanted to get there in the early hours, watch mountain mist float around the centuries-old buildings, and capture it with my camera. But I didn't know much else about the country, other than the capital is Lima, and I didn't know what else to see, other than these famed ruins.
As much as I wanted to see them, I wasn't going to travel all that distance just for one site.
But when we say McGregor and Boorman traverse the landscape of Peru, I realized that there was more to see. DW was interested in going, so we started making plans. But then both our kids started showing an interest, so we decided we'd make it a family vacation.
After all, we haven't taken a vacation with the four of us since we went out to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in 2018. We were due to go somewhere together.
Today is all about getting to Lima. Tomorrow, we fly to Cusco, the highest elevation that any of us have ever been, at nearly 3,400 metres above sea level. We've brought meds to deal with the side effects.
We'll be exploring the old Inca capital and various towns around it, plus the Sacred Valley. Our kids are staying with us for this first week before heading back. In the second week, DW and I will explore another part of the country on our own.
I don't know if I'll be blogging regularly on this trip. It depends on the Internet access and how much down time I'll have. And it'll also depend on whether altitude sickness becomes a hinderance.
If I don't post anything for the next two weeks, be sure that I'll have lots to share when we return.
It's our first time crossing over to the southern hemisphere. A whole new adventure.
Stay tuned.