My Happy Wanderer

Linnea is off to Peru! Amazing that young people can just decide to take off and go. She went with a friend from SC, and they are going to do the Machu Picchu hike. Click on the word and it should take you to the tour that I'm guessing she's on. Here's what she wrote about the rest of the trip:

Tomorrow we go to Cuzco and then hike the Inca Trail from Saturday till Tuesday, getting to Machu Picchu at dawn (apparently that´s the big deal) on the last day. Very exciting, I got all my hiking gear my last few days in Columbia so I´m all ready . . . hopefully. Anyway, after that we go to Arequipa (so you can follow this on your map), where there are canyons and volcanoes--it´s also close to Lake Titicaca--on Wednesday and then come back to Lima Friday night to fly out the next morning.

This is what happens when they watch Carmen Sandiego while they're growing up! They learn about all these places and then have an insatiable appetite to see them. I'm glad she can do this. Poor Andrew is feeling like he's going to be George Bailey, always wanting to "get out of this crummy old town and see the world". He's just got to find someone to do it with!