The bus ride yesterday turned out to be 8 hours instead of 10, and the bus was nice, so it wasn’t too bad.<\/p>\n
Huaraz is a small city (60,000) in the foothills of the Andes at about 10,500 feet elevation. There are not many tourists here except for backpackers, as it’s a nice jumping-off place for high mountain hiking.<\/p>\n
Today we drove over a 14,600 foot pass to Chavin where we saw pre-Inca ruins, built over 3000 years ago. Majestic scenery all the way there. It was raining at the pass on the way back. We must be in the tropics to see rain at 14,600 feet in mid-winter instead of snow. Surely if it keeps up it will turn to snow in the pass tonight, but maybe not where we are at 10,500 feet.<\/p>\n
Devon’s flight yesterday was delayed another 2 hours (from 1:00am to 7:00am), but he finally got home. He will spend a couple of days in Tempe with his girlfriend, then back to California and work.<\/p>\n
Nothing else too exciting going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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