We were up super early, thanks to Pat, and after out complimentary breakfast were were back out into the Peruvian desert.\u00a0 More martian landscape, with such variety and diversity that it was just amazing, but wearing and tiring as well.\u00a0 More colorful mountains, drifted with yellow sand; dunes and rocks.\u00a0 It was either terribly hot, or cold, damp, and foggy.\u00a0 In selected areas, the desert had been cultivated and irrigated and planted with sugar cane, or other crops.\u00a0 In those few areas, there were shanty towns nearby for the farm workers.\u00a0 More squaller and poverty.\u00a0 Everywhere we went, there were piles of debris along the road.\u00a0 There was no way of telling why, but bricks and rocks and dirt and broken concrete block were piled everywhere, in some places for miles out into the desert.\u00a0 Lots of areas in this desert were filled with burning piles of trash.\u00a0 What came to me as a way to try to describe the scenery here to someone was to combine the mountains of Nevada, the deserts of Utah,\u00a0 and the landfills of\u00a0 New Jersey, and throw in the poverty and isolation of the Navajo Indian reservation, too.\u00a0\u00a0 Obviously I am being silly here, but that is what my bored mind thought of as we sped through this desolation for hours on end.<\/p>\n
I continued to have gas supply problems, running out of gas several times and having to use the gas can to make it to the next station, which were very few and very far between.\u00a0 I am baffled by what is causing the bike to not use the last 2-1\/2 gallons of gas in the tank.<\/p>\n
As we approached Lima, we encountered terrible traffic.\u00a0 We had difficulty staying together, as the terrible drivers cut us off, and did stupid things for stupid reasons (or no reason!).\u00a0 We finally got close enough to Lima center to get off the main road, and found what we thought would be a decent place to stay for a day or two.\u00a0 We and Pat had planned om stopping here long enough to get new tires, and Levi’s bike need it’s chain replaced.\u00a0 We found a hotel with a garage, and when we first asked they quoted us s\/60 soles for all three of us;\u00a0 when we went to pay, they insisted that it was now s\/80 soles, with no explanation for the change.\u00a0 That should have been a tip-off that we were in for trouble, but it was still a bargain, so we paid and unloaded.<\/p>\n
We were all starved, and we found an excellent steak dinner at a nearby restaurant run by an Argentinian gentleman, who knew how to cook a steak!\u00a0 It had been a long, hard day’s ride, but we felt good in having made our destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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