Adios Cuzco!

Since I last wrote I have eaten a fried yucca off the street- after I had seen a guy pick one up, claim it was too hot, then proceeded to touch all the ones on the plate and finally choose the least hot one, after which I chose the least fondled one (I was hungry), been up to the ruins Saqsaywaman and Q'enko outside Cusco, gotten extreme altitude sickness (could have been the yucca?), seen Machu Picchu, walked up the mountian Huayna Picchu (not easy!), took the bus to Chinchero for the open market where yet again I was talked into many a trinket, eaten a plate of yellow mystery stew with potatoes and cheese from a woman in the market who served it on a plate which she after "rinsed" by wiping her fingers over the plate with some questionable water, and the spoon was cleaned with the swipe of a skirt fold...finally got a hot shower after 2 days of waiting and stinking I am sure...eaten at a fantastic place Macondo with Billy and Jen from the hostal, been up to the ruins of Pisac and hiked down, legs shaking by the end, been to another market where I bought my last (I swear!) few items, and tonight I sleep knowing in just a few hours I am boarding a plane out of here. Peru has been amazing, I have enjoyed every minute of my time here, except the parts where I was barfing etc, but that was only for a night, so we will not count that. I will put up pictures as soon as I have a few minutes to sit in a loco, but in the meantime I just wanted to mention a few of the main events. I heart Peru!!!