A heavy rain has closed the road to Cuzco for some days, maybe even a week. While we could take the train, it is quite expensive, so we have decided to head back to Ecuador.
After one week, Mai and Megan are definitely tired of Peru. The houses are ugly, like Mexico, and we all are tired of being overcharged for very poor quality rooms.
If we decide to retire in Ecuador, we have the option of buying a three year old or less vehicle, even a small RV, and either drive it or ship it down to Ecuador. That way we could tour through South America without having to deal with over-priced hotels with poor service and restaurants with so much deep-fried food, especially chicken. Mai cooks much better than anything we have eaten here. Of course, there are many things that we don’t know yet, but the ‘ladies’ are ‘burned out’. Read More
I have, the last few days, spent numerous hours replicating WinXP OS on this Fuji laptop onto a VMware virtual system on the new Toshiba laptop. When finished, I will have backed up the Fuji, so I will FORMAT it and re-install a new WinXP system from the virtual system from the Toshiba laptop onto the Fuji laptop and everything should work, right? 
We celebrated the 2010 New Year with a wonderful dinner which included a 13 pound stuffed turkey, potatoes, purple yams topped with multi-colored marshmallows and ending with apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. The only thing we could not find was cranberries.
