Off to South America

On January 3 I will arrive in Lima, Peru after a 4 am departure from DC and a dreadful 5 hour layover in San Salvador. Leah and I will be heading southward across the Andes into Bolivia, hiking the four-day Inca Trail to Machu Pichu along the way. After crossing Lake Titicaca, we'll head through La Paz down the Andes as far south as the salt flats of Salar de Uyuni. From there we fly north to Quito, Ecuador, venture south to Guayaquil, fly to the Galapagos and back, and finish up with a final stretch through the Andes back to Lima. I'll return on March 5.