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| Written by Josh Seamon | |
| Monday, 02 March 2009 | |
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Hello everyone, a short note as we are running between a transfer back for the Casa de Milagros and this aftyernoon's soccer game...more later...Greetings from Cusco, where the sun is just emerging on what will be an afternoon filled with soccer at the central stadium along with an expected 42,000 people. The Lima-Cusco game is one of the biggest of the season, so it should be lively to say the least. We have just spent a wonderful three days at the Casa de Milagros. Our timing with the delivery of school suppies could not have been better as the children are just completing their summer vacation and will return to school on Monday. The dialect of "kid fun" translates well in any language and we had a grand time playing frisbee and soccer, hiking, doing oragami and playing the guitar. Jarret was the star of the show, with his gentle ways and ready smile, and was mobbed by kids wherever he went. We have had a remarkably smooth trip thus far but it appears that we may not be able to make it back to Machu Picchu for the hiking centered part of the trip. Nevers has let us know that there is a regional strike planned for tomorrow and for Wednesday. Political demonstrations like this are peaceful affairs in the urban centers but protestors have historically been effective in shutting down the transportation infrastructure especialy through the Sacred Valley and out to Macchu Picchu. No tourist has ever been hurt, but the goal is to shut off tourist-dollars and make the government really listen due to economic pressure. Unless we are sure that the strike will be called off, the sensible thing to do is to remain in Cusco and vist some of the dozens of historical and cultural sites within and immediately around the city. The real risk in traveling back to Aguas Calientes and to Machu Picchu is perhaps getting stuck there for a number of days until the government and the protestors come to some agreement, at which point we would have missed our flight back home. So...Cusco is a fabulous place to be 'stuck' instead, and there is plenty here both to do and to learn. More later...off to the soccer game. Love to all, we are all happy and healthy and thinking of you, -Karen |
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