KUMD in Peru 6/5/9

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Finally a little news from the road. A two hour story was prepared for the parents only to have the computer kick it...so this is what we've got.

"i am listening to KUMD right now--pretty cool that i figured out how to do it, and makes time on a computer a bit better. by the way, i am in nazca, peru today--traveled hard out of the mountains early yesterday, hit the desert once again, and on south. nazca, of course, is the desert of the famous nazca lines. i saw them today--from an observation tower on the roadside--made me feel far away from home, and, though there was nothing to do but look, i felt a bit as if i had made it to some sort of unmentioned, unmarked checkpoint. maybe because i have seen pictures of the lines all my life.

i am heading for cuzco tomorrow, don´t know if i will make it all the way in one shot--a couple days there, then bolivia is not too far away. not sure how long i will be there, but i hear that the roads are bad, so traveling is slow. i will stick to the west, through la paz and on south to uyani, the salt flats, which have been in my mind for two years--once i hit argentina, the roads should be good and the days will be long as i make for santiago. this is my tentative route."

I'll let you know when I know.

-- luludilly