Machu Picchu @50 Day 7
- Brian Belmont
- Apr 30, 2020
- 2 min read
October 17, 2017
Fell asleep quickly one I let myself lay down. 4am and I was up and out by 430. I had the same driver, 4 times now. 5 minutes to the airport but 15 minutes in airport traffic to get to the departure entrance,
American Airlines priority line check in for international flights is a great addition for credit card members, it made check in so quick and boarding equally as easy as domestic flights, whoohoo! American is my airline.
I stopped in the Peruvian crafts / foods shop for a look around...you never know what you will find. I was thrilled to find a small copper church miniature and a retableau of a day of the dead masks, they had many that were town scenes and many religious, which were all I had seen in Cusco...major score. I also bought some chocolate with coca for a friend,
Departed on time and slept 4 of the 6 hours...amazing.
Using the mobile passport app makes customs and immigration a breeze. It’s such an amazing thing that my backwards country is doing anything right but this one, normally painful process, is now a breeze.
I’m Miami, I had a snack of Greek yogurt, apricot, and nuts, couscous salad, and some green machine juice, it was a nice change. Even though I had slept enough, I felt tired and well...a but under the weather, I hope that the trip didn’t leave me with some sickness to resolve.
So, here I am at the end of my journey to Machu Picchu. I traveled there to experience this great wonder in celebration of my 50th Birthday, I shared this journey with two friends who for all of us was a celebration of life and freedom. It was to challenge us, and it did. It was to teach us, and it did. It was provide us with reflection and I believe it did that also. Machu Picchu is a great wonder of our world and sharing the experience of getting there, the people along the way, the history of a great Inka civilization, the Peruvian and Andean cultures, and the surprising food was incredible. Actually even better, was our story, one that we shared and binds us, that is the jewel that was Peru.
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