Realizing this is out of sequence with my promise to post many more Ecuador and Galapagos pictures as well as some amazing sites in Peru, I'm taking an executive privilege in posting these pictures of Machu Picchu. Truly one of the places that I very much wanted to go to.......I'm sure my daughter will accuse me of photoshopping the pictures. On my word, this is real, not fake and when you see the others...hopefully in the not too distant future, you will be similarly impressed. Very tired from the last few days of travel in Peru, now in Atlanta on my way back home. A bit disoriented and scatterbrained from the red-eye flight last night. Need to stay up a few more hours to get back on schedule. So I decided to post this short blog to try to preserve the memory of Machu Picchu.
Well, it wasn't quite as long and hard as Hiram Bingham's journey to discover Machu Picchu, but it was still a long trek. Now, this is not exactly the path we took but in theory, to get from Honolulu to Machu Picchu, you would fly first to Atlanta, then Lima, then a flight to Cusco, then a 4 hour train ride, and when you get to Machu Picchu, you still need to get on a bus for 1/2 hour that will take you up the mountain while skirting oncoming buses traveling back down - on a narrow uneven, unstable, dirt road, with treacherous winding curves and fallen debris resulting from prior avalanches prompting you to close your eyes, pray to God and wish for the best. When you finally arrive, thats when your day begins....climbing up and down a million uneven steps, some tall and some short, smashing your feet and mangling your ankles hoping to get through the day without tripping or some major foot or ankle injury. What an adventure............more later...including many more pictures. 
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