good morning so at this campground that we're staying
one of the guys asked us if we wanted to go on a trip with him a couple days ago i actually
fell the other day and i kind of hurt my leg so i am so low then laughing for a couple days
danny did text me this morning and said that he is safe and he was getting on his second
transport i feel a little bit sad i didn't go but at the same time who's gonna watch the pets
this is a really active trail you can't really bring the dog in the cat and we didn't really
look up anybody to to watch him i'm not gonna do this thing but there are plenty of things
that i'm going to do and i honestly am enjoying the allowance i'm happy i have this like perfect
oasis campground to stay in while danny's gone and i don't have to move the van this isn't my
first time solo van lifeing and that time i was in utah and danny went on a ski trip with his friends
i did get kicked out of a place by the police i basically spent the entire time going snowboarding
every day and then on the days where the snow wasn't as good i went and did yoga for two days
i really didn't mind being alone that time and i'm pretty sure the same is gonna happen for
this time this is the peru i always wanted to see thanks so much to mario for inviting me up
i here emily a lot and the animals in the van it's a pretty popular hike everybody seems to
be coming down right now we're about at 14 000 feet and this has been a 2 000 feet elevation gain
we were able to leave our backpacks down there
we will probably camp tonight and then continue on for three more days
basically mario and i have a bet going here he says this up here isn't snow it's a white rock and
i think it's snow so we bet a dinner one of us is getting a free dinner out of this here i'll show
you guys what we're looking at here i'm pretty sure you're on my side but we'll find out soon
mario looks like you went the wrong way bro i think your uh your route finding might be as
bad as your snow finding you know i miss emily a lot but it's nice to just be browned out with
my homie betting on things to get ourselves in an avalanche zone it's nearly i'm not saying
what do you think is this water drinkable up here
i'll tell you tomorrow
and i'll see you guys tomorrow all right let's get this party started
so
we rolled in here pretty late and it was quite chilly mario said he couldn't sleep too well i
actually had a horse step on my tent right here that's scary but you can see the sun
making its way down the hill to meet us here help us dry off the stuff many people have already gone
past to do this sal kantai trick so here we go day two we're heading up to the pass this should
be the best part of the tram the highest altitude portion of the trek kind of glad we made it up
a little farther last night we've made a lot of friends on this trek four people came up to where
our tent was we're all hanging out while we're getting ready they're still taking a break but i
think they'll pass us a couple dudes from colorado and a couple that are from sweden and ireland
hey we did it we made it all the way to the top that would be the back of that lake i guess i'm
on tight and over here you can see the trail heading down what a view gotta just smell the
roses enjoy the moment up here and from here it's all downhill at one point mario said he
was gonna grab an ambulance scared the heck out of me but we made it just fine we're supposed
to head down pretty far probably another six miles because the weather gets way better down
there we'll see how far we make it today but just letting this uh success sink in right here this
is about the best water i've ever tasted emily bought me a new filter it's really simple to
use you just fill up this bag and then squeeze it out and you're done super tasty water too
hi buddy
this is the tiny little kitchen and the campground so i'm just gonna do the dishes over here at like
6am whenever danny was leaving for the trip he filled up his bladder and he couldn't get
it closed which is one of the reasons why i don't really like these splatters
because they're hard to open and close they leak i don't like them i'm not going to use them
we have another poor little pandemic graveyard here in cusco
there's some people buying some of these rvs and honestly i think
it's an awesome idea to snag one of these gems half the price down here
mega
good night buddy i had a really nice day here at the campground
it wasn't very exciting just like hanging out with the pets and working and getting some stuff
done around the van and i did have an update from danny and he made it 12 miles today and
he wasn't sure if it was gonna be three or four days so i'm pretty sure it's gonna be
four rob asked if i wanted to have a beer at the sun set up near his rig and the french trio came
over too so i hoisted somebody up and that was pretty funny but you can tell that she wants
to go in because she like will try and jump into my arms and like she's way too big to
jump into my arms graham came and i didn't bring him with us john at the door and yeah
we let him in and he was wandering around rob's van it was really cute and i think he went up
rob's ladder which is really funny i've never seen him do that before good night
are you coming buddy okay oh my god
oh my god this is so sketchy right here i slipped a little bit
yes
we did put some bug spray on well we saw this line here we're wondering what it was and actually
over here you could sleep put your sleeping bag there's something i don't know just a little fort
i haven't heard from danny yet today so he must be out of range and i can't wait to see all the
places they traveled and hear about the past few days for them the salcon thai check is alternative
to machu picchu since it's cheaper and could end at the archaeological site if you're uncomfortable
sleeping in tents or carrying food it's possible to sleep in hostels and eat in restaurants the
whole way and each night can only cost about 60 soles although there are tour companies
it's really easy to find the trail and so many people are on it hiring a guide is not a necessity
you can support the local community by buying some food or paying to stay at a campsite
sambrita and i came back from a nice long shopping trip with rob wow it was a little exciting we went
to the market and i got a whole bunch of fruits and veggies we walked over to the main square to
see if we could find a atm and a collateral store which claro is the cell phone service that we both
have we went over to the collateral store and they said oh you have to go the next block over
there's another principle like a main claro store so we go and they said five stores down is another
quarter store and that's the one you want to go to they're like no we can't help you two source
john is is the real the princey pal calharo store it's not like we went to little bodegas why can't
you do it here i don't know it looks like they're closing and so we try and walk in and the security
guard says no you can't come in an agent comes out and she says okay well give me the money and i'll
re-up your collateral and then you know whatever rob says it it doesn't work oh my gosh give me
your phone i'll take it into the technician gave her money for mine so rob just sneaks past the
security guard and goes in the car store she comes back with his phone and mine and his phone's fixed
she couldn't do mine so she gave me the money back i go to the next door and she tells me she
can't do it she says you're gonna have to take a 10 minute taxi ride i have a dog i'm not doing
that go to the place next door and she says of course i can put money on your account going back
to the vans sombrito was able to go in the taxi it didn't cost much more it cost about the same if
someborita was a person you know we paid 10 soles 2.50 cents a 10 minute ride i have been able to
get in touch with danny which is nice sounds like he's gonna be back tomorrow hi zambrita
did you like our walk earlier our shopping trip together you enjoyed it it hasn't been too too bad
being on my own i guess it really helps that i don't have to move all right i'm gonna make myself
some popcorn my super tasty popcorn recipe is three spoonfuls of popcorn to one spoonful of oil
i'm going to do six of these teaspoons of kernels and and put them into and then i'm gonna take two
spoonfuls of oil and put it into the pot i put three kernels of popcorn into the pot
turn the fire on so that it'll heat up the pot after the oil heats up all three of the popcorns
have popped pour the all of the rest of the kernels in and then your house smells like popcorn
i'm gonna use salt nutritional yeast i'm like outrageously excited for this popcorn bag
are you guys ready to go outside
so danny's coming back today i'm so excited he said he'll be here between five and eight
because they're going to be taking colectivos all the way back so they don't really know what time
but i'm really excited to hear about his time wandering through the mountains here
my water is running up so that's gonna be interesting to watch me pour in the water because
i can do it and i've done it before but i haven't done it in a long time it's also super sunny right
now so i'm gonna plug in all the stuff i've been using the past couple days so that i can charge
everything up especially dave's computer because i've been using his computer it's nicer than mine
so somebody and i this morning are gonna go on a nice long walk she was able to wander around
freely at the campground for a little bit but when the owner's dogs come out she has to go onto a
leash so she can't really run around and that's just because the owner's dogs are pretty small
and she really really wants to play i think i mean it's no big deal for us and she'll
still get outside time just on her cord there's dogs that want to play there's
dogs that don't want to play and this dog doesn't want to play and somebody does
really is a beautiful little field we found here for her to run around him so
not bad at all we're gonna head up the trail a little bit let's go for a walk
tonight we're going on a nice walk together oh look some pretty good friends i knew i smelled
them so we were going to keep walking up the hill but there is a soccer game going on so
i don't want somebody to feel their ball so i'm gonna start heading down but
i think i'm gonna go off on another little trail somewhere i feel like i'm
back in the u.s a little bit pretty open spaces oh it's so beautiful
i love this so much
surrounded by all these beautiful flowers hi baby
jokes on me i got all these stickers but still worth it for that it's always so nice to come
home from a dirty truck with a nice clean van so i'm setting up everything so danny is nice
and comfy once he gets back we are so excited to be reunited for more adventures together
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