The Mayer Twins Take on Two Sides of South America
April 2016
I guess it was ambitious to think we would be able to sleep past sunrise, since we’ve gotten up prior to dawn the last four mornings straight. After finally getting to bed at 2am, I thought we were tired enough to sleep the six hours through to our alarm… wrong! I was up at 6am …
I guess I slept well because when our alarm went off at 3:15am, it woke me up. And yes, Brittany and I set an alarm to get up earlier than our official wake up call… We were having trouble getting ready and out of our tent in the forty minutes they gave us every other …
So, I think this might be the last time I go camping. Last night we basically slept on a pile of rocks. Or I should say, tried to sleep… I think Britt and I got a total of 20 minutes combined. Even bundled up in a sleeping bag that’s supposed to be good up to …
Surprisingly Britt and I both felt well rested when Yaneth came to our tent with tea to wake us up. Maybe I can do this camping thing after all. I never leave the house without mascara, so the same theory applies here… I’m not leaving my tent without it either. But putting it on in the …
Rise and shine, it’s Inca Trail time! We both barely slept… Britt because she was afraid we were going to sleep through our alarm and me because I was nervous about the four days ahead. I had to say goodbye to my hairdryer, which I wasn’t very happy about… Guess it’s time to embrace au …
Today did start with quite an adventure. We decided to head forty-five minutes east to the town of Pisaq, a colonial village known for fortress ruins and it’s daily market. We learned we could make the trip much cheaper if we jumped into a van carrying other passengers, known as a collectivo taxi. We decided …
So I never do this, because once I see daylight, it’s all over and I can’t go back to sleep… But in this room, with this view, it’s a must! We slept with the curtains open so we could wake up to the magnificent view of Cusco’s terra-cotta roofs against the green mountain peaks. Muy …
I’d say good morning, but in this case it’s more like “good middle of the night!” Although it wasn’t so good… two hours of sleep and then a cab driver who I’m pretty sure was still asleep. It was a scary ride to the airport in his death cab as he kept veering into other …
How is it already our last day in Brazil?!? That went entirely too quickly. With just a few more sites to tackle on our list before having explored everything we wanted to see in Rio, we headed to the Botanical Gardens. We decided to walk the four miles, which took us around Lagao Rodrigo de …
Just when we thought we had escaped all the current political rumblings associated with the presidential primaries in the states (like jokes about Donald Trump’s hair and people moving to Canada regardless of which front runner for each party becomes president), we found ourselves in the middle of some political turmoil in Brazil. Currently suffering …