Sunday, July 1, 2007

No Jet Lag -- Trip To Peru


This is the way to travel. Make your travels in the north or south direction- not east or west and avoid the jet lag adjustment. This is one of the few trips where we haven't had to make time adjustments (except for 1 hour). It was so easy on our sleep cycle which was great cause both Paula and I like our sleep! We left Jacksonville around noon and with delays and normal airport stuff we got to our Lima Swissotel about 12am. We only saw the inside of our luxurious room for a couple of hours because we had to leave the next day by 6:15am for a bus ride to Ica. Not a normal 4 hour bus ride -- the seats were like 1st class airplane seats. Foot rests, movies, and snacks. Scenery (typical picture above) was sort of depressing, dry, tan, sandy and poor. We figured that anyone that had a real roof was considered rich. Most roofs in the little villages were grass, sticks, corn husks and plastic. Also McDonalds & Pizza Huts were absent from all cities and towns except for Lima.