While we’d been happy to have the traditional Peruvian chicken soup for breakfast the last couple times we’d been to restaurants and it had been the only thing on offer, we both prefer something more along the lines of “pan con huevos” (bread and eggs), which is both easier to eat and more-familiar. Yesterday morning… Read more…

Our night at 15,900 ft. wasn’t as chilling as I’d feared, the temperature “only” got down to 32°F, which we’d experienced 3500 ft. lower a couple weeks ago. During the night I repeatedly heard rustling and clanking, and the idea got stuck in my head that it was the nearby horses (for carting tourists up… Read more…

Our camp under the Puya Raimondiis had dropped just to freezing by morning, which wasn’t too bad given how close to that temperature it had gotten by bedtime. So our water remained in liquid state, but the wind had flipped direction overnight and it was quite annoying. It’s as if it always emanates from the… Read more…

Today we would begin our third crossing of the Cordillera Blanca mountain range. No, this high-altitude zig-zagging isn’t moving us south very efficiently! But we came to Huaraz and this part of Peru to see these mountains, and our previous two crossings indicate that we’d be fools to not do at least one more, if… Read more…

Today we were attempting one of the statistically biggest rides we’ve ever done, so it was nice that our hosts at Hotel Inca were willing to get up a little earlier than usual and have breakfast ready by 6:30am. We took the direct route out of town, which ended up being a pretty rough gravel… Read more…

Days 2-4 Our second day in Chavin was a well-deserved do-nothing day. At some point, the power went out, but we had no idea if it was just the hotel, or the whole town, since we didn’t even leave our room. While we could have manually done our own laundry in the hotel’s courtyard, we… Read more…