…Travel stories from Lima, Peru… CHAPTER 1 – Limatimes Solidarity Franco’s eyes hid behind his glasses, the bent light reflecting back at me through a thick lens. His curly black hair shivered when he shook a nod in the affirmative. “Yes, it is illegal.” The long wrinkled tube of … Continue reading The Lima Chapters
…Travel stories tripping in Lima… Nicolai has a collection of music that more than suits my taste; it brings me into my past. Coldplay puts me into a room littered with markings or random souvenirs nailed to the walls. Two skylights are in the slanting ceilings and red blankets … Continue reading Tripping in The House of No Ends
…Travel stories from hitchhiking in Peruvian Altiplanos… Pucallpa behind me like a fading wake, the long mounting road into the Andes and out of the jungles of the Amazon began to beckon. A sign on the side of the road suggests that the working man’s world is engrained in … Continue reading Righteous Discussing in the Pampas and The Tricky Cold Rails
…Travel stories from hitchhiking to the Peruvian Amazon… People my age are thinking about their retirement. I can’t even see past a few days. Every once in a while the social conventions tickle at my neck, trying to get my attention. Social conventions like career, planning, master’s, security, raising … Continue reading Déjà Vu-ing to the Amazon: The Wood Trailer, Jesus, Girls, and Firemen
…Travel stories from hitchhiking in the Peruvian Andes… Abraham has hosted many travelers through that wonderful little website called couchsurfing. I was not the first hitchhiker he welcomed. He in fact has had two others, one French and one Polish. He didn’t like the Polish one because that hitcher … Continue reading The Shameless Negotiator Goes Alpine
