Bump in the Road

Civil unrest ... Not the words you want to hear six days prior to leaving on what was supposed to be your adventure of a lifetime. Hopefully this latest news will just be a bump in the road. Basically we have to avoid Puno, Peru. Well basically the roads are all closed in and out of Puno as well as the border crossing into Bolivia. We're counting on our travel agent to fix everything tomorrow (three days before departure). Thank goodness I purchased the travel insurance. If she can't fix it, then hello Spain!

12 Days to Departure

I'm getting a bit anxious about the trip. This won't be like going to Kansas Toto.

I'm completely freaked out about the road to Machu Picchu. Check it out. I hate heights!!! Heights with scary edges ... only a thousand times worse. UGH!!! This one and only (gravel) road is "the means to the [spectacular] end" and I don't mean that literally. I guess I will just have to suck it up. Easy to say now, but when the day actually comes, I will have issues.

Wish us luck and pray that the bus driver is on his A-game that day.

Counting the days until our departure for our South American Adventure

Get ready Peru & Bolivia ... the Mueller girls are preparing for our trip below the equator.

This week, Stacy and I will see our doctors and get the perscription for the Maleria vaccine. Next week starts our shots for Yellow Fever, Hep A & B, and Typhoid. Already purchased our water filtration bottles, but still need to get chlorine tablets to kill anything else that may linger in the water supplies of Peru and Bolivia. Registered the trip with the State Department and am reading up on remedies for altitute sickness. Don't you wish you were coming with us too. :)

The benefit of all this preparation will be a 14 day immersion into the Peruvian and Bolivian cultures.