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That is stunning scenery!

@twal tis far more astounding in person, I hope you can try it some day. The rough roads, insane truck/bus drivers and high altitude all work against one but it was well worth all the hurdles

There are no trees on those hills. Are those just giant rocks?

@properal right, it’s really HO scale I just didn’t get the model train before it passed

@properal but seriously, I took many shots and it was hard to get the composition right b/c the giant mountains were so close

@kenj Thanks for sharing. This is beautiful!

wow that looks like a workout! Sore the next day?

@twal not bad, surprisingly. but i run alot

there you go again with all that white male puppy privilege again. lol

I bought some Insect Shield apparel and the number of ticks that have nailed me was substantially reduced.

You must be really ticked off.

@nednetterville haha we have armed up considerably since. we replaced his seresto collar, we’re gonna remember the cedar oil/lemongrass spray next time (wondercide) and i got him a garlic and beef liver tablet, reviews looks astounding, as vampires hate garlic 😉
as for me, I should just wear pants.

@richardmasta Seresto collar worked for my Tink (see her picture by my name), but my wife objected to me wearing one 🙂 Insect Shield socks, pants, long sleeve shirt and hat kept ’em away when I was spending a lot of time in the ticks’ neck of the woods. Seresto kept my dog tick free except for a couple of dead ones I found in her wire coat. Have…[Read more]

@nednetterville we’ve been pulling ticks off the fluffy butt up there but a few were dead and most were trying to get the heck out. one even jumped ship and we found it on a white sheet. (we’re white sheet supremacists, @kenj) — I even got a tick trifecta yesterday! A deer tick, a turkey tick, and a dog tick. Pretty awesome. We had better luck…[Read more]

muh trail! Roger did you do this one?

@kenj Sure did, Ken! This trail only takes an hour or so.

We also visited the Sun Gate (90 mins), and the summit of Macchu Pichu mountain (2 hours). We also hiked up to the site and back down, avoiding the overpriced bus ride (60 mins each way). Of course, we did explore the ruins while we were there, but by doing the other things first we found…[Read more]

spectacular. In my declining years I must revisit Peru. The fact that I’ve only worked there, and never stopped to play is inexcusable

@rrule
I thought you took the opportunity to see Machu Picchu once when you were here?

There are lots of things you could do and see just in Lima if you could spare a few hours as you are passing through.

@ccspencer Did that, with10,000 of my closest friends, ” drive by” tourism. Did a nice tour of Amazonas from Iquitos years ago too.
After this bull market cycle, I want to actually take time. I’ve got good friends in interesting places, and I’d like to see the special places, while my carcass still functions. Your photos, and Jorge Trucco’s…[Read more]

@rrule
“Did that, with10,000 of my closest friends …”

Yeah, that is why I never have been to Machu Picchu even though I know it must be magnificent. I prefer “the road less traveled.”

I do want to go to Choquequirao but have not yet arranged it. I hope I am still able by the time I get around to it. Maybe next January. Want to go along?

Sitting here thinking that Lyme disease is the next Ebola. And then I realize it has it’s origins in a govt lab called Plum Island, where it ESCAPED in 1975 and got all over the country mighty fast. Some intuition led me to research the globalist eugenicist Rockefeller family, and low and behold, the Plum Island tick experiments began in the mid…[Read more]

spectacular photo, thank you.