Peru: Day 2

Day 2 in Peru was quite the adventure! Little did we know, our first night was probably the best nights sleep we'd get the entire week. After a soundless, dreamless (at least for me) sleep, we packed up and got ready to make the drive from Lima to Huanuco, then from Huanuco to Hauncayo. 

First things first, packing up to go:

Waiting for everyone to be ready:

My MIL, Triana's, first picture with Wyatt in 2 years!  

Happy as clams eating bread and jam for breakfast:

Then all hell broke loose once we got on the road. See that car outside my window? Well I could touch it with my pointer finger. I didn't even have to put my hand out the window to do it either. I just stuck my finger out and tap, tap, I was touching another car. Flip man! And notice how it's a taxi? Now are we surprised to see taxi's breaking the law? No, of course not. But all the cars around Peru don't pay any attention to road rules. Complete lawlessness I tell you! And day 2 was NO EXCEPTION! And this was about 5 minutes in to our 5 hour drive... or so we thought. 

Reesey is all smiles!

Wyatt manning the GPS and the radio:

I think this stop was about 3 hours into our drive. We stopped by a little town called Chosica to get some chicken, chips, and inca cola. Wyatt served in this area. Check the shanty town going up the hill. And the great looking family if I do say so myself.... (Especially the one on the far right)

 Wyatt ran into one of the members he taught while in this particular area. 

Can I just say that these two were complete clowns from the minute they saw each other? I don't know what it is... 

View of the town, Chosica. 

We stopped by some members house, but the parents weren't home. That didn't stop Wyatt from getting the son to show us their absolutely hideous dog. 

See what I mean? I was just waiting for it to mutate into something from Alien vs. Predator. 

Now we were 6 hours into our 5 hour trip, and still no where near Huanaco. The road out of Lima becomes just a two-lane highway type thing. So a) there is a lot of traffic and b) more lawlessness. So once we climbed and climbed and climbed, we passed through the mountain city of Ticlio. There is nothing really great about this place except for the fact that it's almost 5,000 metres (over 15,000 feet) above sea level. 

So we were high, high up. You could definitely feel it. 

Cute little Peruvian moms with their baba's. 

We were originally supposed to go to Huanaco, then Huancayo... but Wyatt got his hours a little off. So we skipped Huanaco to save ourselves about 5 extra hours of driving time and headed straight to Huancayo. 

Here is another little town we drove through. The two-way road that took us from Lima to Huancayo is the only possible way to get there. Lets just say it's not the most smooth drive. Obviously there are speed bumps (massive ones) in the little cities you drive through to keep people going the speed limit, but what's not expected is the random massive speed bumps not in the cities. We hit a couple. Triana almost broke her neck on a few of them and my boobs almost fell out of my chest on a few. It was ridiculous! So- we happy clammers we not so happy near the end of our drive, 9 hours later.... 

Wee stop... bathrooms were hard to come by- not even joking! Don't even get me started on the toilet paper situation...  

When we finally drove into Huancayo, we were all starving and our bums hurt. So first stop first was dinner. Delicious right? And people told me I was gonna starve in Peru.... 

Oh hungry Wyatt.. Only about 400 hours off about our trip length... Don't worry, we still love you!

After dinner we walked around a little looking for a hotel to spend the night. We finally settled on a decent place that had rock hard beds (seriously- when I collapsed on the bed I thought I may have fractured my coccyx) and a noisy door bell (Tri can attest to that)... but the toilets flushed and there was water, so that in itself deserved 5 stars! So all in all, day two wasn't the most entertaining of the trip because of all the driving.... But the food and company was great as usual!

Stay tuned for day 3... it only gets better!