Death road and La Paz

Hi guys so I am so lazy with writing in this thing cause whenever I am writing its always like a week or 2 late! Ha-ha ok so in La Paz I spent a few days hanging out in the city with my portugese friend and I did the famous Death road bike tour which was omg the most funnest thing I think I have ever done in a long time if not ever! So basically there are 2 reputable tours in La paz, they are gravity something and baracuda. I went to gravity first and they charge 750 Bolivianos which is about $150 CAD. And I was like holly cow that's alot of money for a one day tour so I continued looking around and the guy told me the next best cheapest option would be baracuda. He told me the reason gravity was so pricey is cause they scrap their bikes after 2 yrs and actually pass them on to baracuda. They also use carbon fiber bikes, I forget the brand but anyways ya you get the idea. So I went with baracuda and they were $100CAD but I liked that they were basically the next best thing and they check the bikes everyday, have good English speaking guide and will change the brakes for you depending on what you are comfortable with. So yea the tour itself...you start off doing this small ritual thing where you pass around a bottle of almost pure alcohol...I think it was like 96% and what you do is pour some on the ground, on your bike and lastly you take a swig. And essentially you are asking pachamama (mother earth) to bless you to make sure nothing bad happens. Then we start riding and the first 5-10 mins are on paved road and its meant to be like a warm up...get used to the bikes, brakes etc.

After we arrive to the start of the road and its essentially in the mountains and the roads are the thickness of one normal lane in canada. Anyway we start riding in small stretches and holly shit I'm like about to piss my pants and like cry because its like the scariest thing I have ever done!! First off its fairly steep you are going super fast and there are rocks and stones EVERYWHERE!!! you are bouncing like a mother effer and I'm trying to get a rhythm for it but I just cannot get comfortable with it!! Finally after the first stretch we all stop and I ask the guide what he recommends and he gave me some tips like try not braking at all and just use your elbows and knees to absorb the shock and it helped alot. Anyway we approach this stretch and be tells us that 80% of accidents happen in this part so be cautious and don't get cocky cause up until this point people are quite careful and when they get here they become slightly too confident and thats how accidents happen. So what do you know I'm like turning the corner and bam a German girl in my group who was riding amazing up until that point was laying on the ground trembling, and clutching her neck saying how she couldn't breathe. I'm like omggggg you have got to be kidding me, like seriously someone has been injured?!! I dunno I guess I was being slightly optimistic thinking that accidents were rare but ya there was one right in front of my eyes. So anyway the rest of the tour got kinda delayed because of that. Anyways once she got sent to the hospital the rest of the group continued onwards and omg by the end of the ride j was having such a blast!! I felt sooo alive and I was just having true pure untainted FUN!! hahahaha it was just incredible and the views were spectacular which just made everything that much better! So ya I highly recommend that tour if you ever go but just don't be a show off and make sure you have insurance ha-ha! So something else I did in La paz was the red cap walking tour which was also very great! It costs 20 Bolivianos and you basically walk around the city, visit some fruit and meat market, go to something called the witches market where you can buy love  potions that have actually been made by real witches and ya just some neat interesting stuff. You also learn a bit about the San Pedro prison which is like a whole world in its own. So basically it's the biggest prison in La paz, maybe Bolivia and you can't go inside as a tourist. It's illegal however when there's a will there's a way and apparently you can bribe the guards to let you in. I didn't have much of a desire to enter cause there have been some horror stories abou tourists that enter and can't exit or women getting raped and stuff. There's apparently a great book called marching powder that describes the experience of either a prisoner or of a tourist who went inside. So in this prison you can have your family live with you, you work and make money and depending on how much money you have, you get get some pretty sick stuff like a hottub in your flat and you can get flat screen TVs which to me is like wtf?!! How is this a prison?! Anyway apparently alot of cocaine is produced in the prison and the guide was saying that one way they get it out is by putting it in a diaper and throwing it over the top and having it land in the street where someone collects it. Anyways that's essentially the highlight of La Paz that I did. After La Paz I took a night bus go uyuni to do the salt flat tours and I just finished that 4 days ago. My next post will be about that :)

La Paz

Hey so I am sitting in the hostel called Wild Rover in La Paz and I am actually staying in the hostel next door hahahah but my hostel is absolutely dead and this one is over crowded so I am using their computer haha!
So I just left Isla del Sol this am and omgggg the island itself is soooo cray cray!!! So we arrive there yesterday and the whole day is like cloudy and gloomy...luckily for us it didn´t rain but it wasnt exactly super sunny either! all we did was hike around the island, eat and hangout at this restaurant on the top of the island that had a sick ass view! I think we were in bed by 9pm...there was like no wifi anywhere and the electricity was umm questionable...so definintely just had a very low key evening. This morning we get up bright and early, the sun was shinning and we get a mini hike in before heading to get some breaky. After breaky, we start descending to the pier to catch the boat back and omg I kid you not it starts hailing...like ice pellets are flying from the sky and whipping my face. The stone steps that I am walking have like a mini river flowing down and omg it was the hardest thing to get down cause it was so damn slippery!! eventually we get to the bottom and theres like a hut with like 30 something tourists just packed under it.
We take the ferry back and I take a bus to La Paz. I ended up getting on the bus with this Switzerland guy I met at the restaurant last night named Nabile and we got a taxi to the hostel that is wild rover. Nothing too exciting has happened so far...I unpacked my things in my hostel, got some Chifa for dinner and omg my waiter was so funny...he was Chinese and so I tried to speak Canto to him...he didn´t understand...then I tried English...didn´t understand, then I tried my shitty Spanish and again nothing...omg wtf!! I was so annoyed and like everyone in the restaurant was staring at me laughing lol!!! So embarassing!!!
Anyway so I am gonna do the free walking tour tomorrow and try to book something for the crazy death road thing...I am excited for Bolivia...the people are different from Peruvians but they seem really intruiging! Anyways I am dead tired and have to shower still...ughhhh !!!
hasta luega
P.s. the first photo is when I was arriving to LA paz and the bus had go cross the river. The second photo was just a picture of the isla del Sol.

Bolivia day 1

Our mama for the day! Such a sweet lady. We are dressed here in their local clothing! I couldn´t breathe because it was tied so tightly!!!

This boys name is Tomo...he made the floating island tour worthwhile

The dinner that was cooked by the local family living on the island

So after MP I stayed in Cusco for a couple days before heading to Puno. On my last day in Cusco I hung out with this American girl I met on the train ride back to Cusco and her roommate..the both of them were studying Spanish but the 18 yr old girl from France was doing her gap yr. She was to stay in Peru for 6 months and then head to China after that. She was wickedly amazing for 18!! Like seriously i felt she had done so much more than me and was so much more mature and not to mention a fricken decade younger than me!! I love meeting young adults like this cause you just can't help but be in awe of their courage and bravery... When i hear how easy she takes life and how adventurous she is, it just makes me feel like wtf am I doing with all this stupid anxiety about whether i am on the "right" track. It makes me feel inspired that if one person is doing it, i can too (yes I totally need someone else to do something before I can see myself doing it!) Anywho so I took my night bus to puno that night and I was so excited cause I was in the FIRST class seating where my seat reclined all the way and ahhh it was so luxurious!!Hahaa I hadn´t experienced that yet in Peru so I was pretty darn excited! So I get to puno at like 5am and I have nothing booked... No accommodation, no tour, NOTHING!! so I'm like sitting in the bus terminal feeling like ass cause it was so early and i was still like half asleep. I'm fricken freezing and I can't move like an inch. I feel uncomfortable cause I'm in a foreign city, people are yelling strange things and  here I am just like stalling in the station, there's this annoying man yelling Arequippa but in that way where its like you're an auctioneer and he just wouldn't stop!! Eventually I peeled my ass from my plastic seat and ended up walking to a tour guide office (like one of two in the bus station) company and inquiring about the floating islands tour and ended up booking it with him. The tour finished yesterday and it was a complete waste of time!! Definitely wouldn't recommend to anyone . The only good thing about the tour was that I got to meet this super adorable kid named Tomo and I kid you not was like a baby Buddha! So smiley with rosy cheeks!! Big brown innocent eyes and ahhhh I just wanted to eat him!! Oh i also got to meet this really awesome Portugese woman named Monica and she was so chill and just had an awesome energy to her. After the tour i headed back to Puno, got dinner with Anis and Monica and then headed back to the hostel to call it a night. So this hostel was recommended to me by Anis and she was telling me how it was completely deserted and she had the entire dorm room to herself so I was like sweet I am staying there! So i´m like in bed getting ready to sleep and at like 10pm the door opens and in comes in the hostel worker and a guy and i´m like gonna loose my marbles!! I just wanna sleep and he comes in prolly gonna make a shit ton of noise and ahh so i look at him and say "are you going to bed soon?" And hes like no, i havent had dinner yet. I´m like freaking out in my head trying to stay calm and be like obvious that i need to sleep early. Anyway I ended up being kinda bitchy to him and felt terrible after, so I apologized and he just laughed it off lol. He actually ended up being quite the character...he was a quarter sri lanken and 3/4 german. Super easy on the eyes but a tad bit too immature. At one point in the night, its like dead quiet, we are almost asleep and he just randomly says, I don´t know what i am doing in life..¨ Me and Anis burst out laughing and completely awaken from that comment. Anywho he had this boyish charm to him and every now and then we would just like hold eachothers gaze for a few seconds and just start laughing out of no where. I love when I can be a total random goof with people and not have it be weird.

Anywho I dunno why but I woke up this morning just feeling really happy and free....it was like I finally let go of whatever I was holding onto since starting this trip and just finally let myself enjoy the ride, the adventure of the unknown and keeping a positive attitude. I think I'm starting to really get into the travelling mode which is great cause like I said before I sorta felt like I wasn't fully living in the present moment and I wasn´t enjoying the fact that I was actually backpacking and doing something I love so much!  But now I've finally loosened up and have stopped thinking about the future or past. I have also come to the realization that I can't continue doing what I am doing back home. I feel so stagnant and like time is stagnant, but its NOT! time is completely passing me by and I am not doing what I want to be doing! The hardest part is deciding what to do! There are so many bloody options to choose from. I know that I wanna contribute and give back so whether that means I start working abroad or do some volunteer work, I'm still unsure but I don't think I can just continue backpacking. As much as I love it, sometimes you feel like all you're doing is taking (yes you are contributing to the economy) but I wanna give some of me back.

Anyways I'm sitting in bed in my hostel in Copacabanda and oh something interesting happened to me tonight as I was roaming the streets with Anis. I bumped into a girl I met over 2 yrs ago in Bali and she had been travelling since then! It was so weird to have seen her cause its like what are the bloody chances?!! But ya she's been travelling for over 2 yrs and just wow! Dunno if I could do that but props to her. Anyway I am gonna head to bed now I'm catching a 830 ferry to the isla de Sol which is supposed to be amazing!! But no WiFi on the island so I shall be MIA for a bit! Good night and good dreams! Ciao ciao!

October 2 2015

So this was the second half of day 2 trekking...complete jungle like environment

This is the beautiful lagoon we hiked to on day 1 where I felt like passing out! but the view was totally worth it!

Hey yall!! So its been like 2 weeks since my last entry and I must say I totally miss writing mindlessly in these things! Okay so where to start...basically after spending a few days in Cuzco being the mystery guest, I finally booked my trek to machu Picchu with a company called vertigo and not gonna lie the tour guide and just the tour itself was subpar. I paid $250 USD which is pretty decent considering I was thinking I had to cough up like $500 so I was happy with the price. The trek itself was so fricken amazing.  The experience of living in the wilderness for 4 days was just so refreshing and totally needed on my end. So the first day you get pciked up around 530am and you drive for a few hrs and meet at this stop called challacancha which is at 3600m and we begin the trek there. It wasn't bad...maybe like in total 3 hrs of uphill and flat. trekking. We arrive to soraypampa which is our first camp base. After setting up tents we all hike to a lagoon called humantay lake and stupid me I didn't bring my bloody camera and it ended up being like the most beautiful lake with this amazing grand mountain backdrop!! Luckily my group members were kind enough to snap some pics. The trek to this lagoon was supposed to be lke a taste for the next days trek and fuck me it was soooo hard!! The hill wasn't even that steep but I think because of the altitude or something jt was just leaving me completely breathless. So the first night was freezing and it actually ended up raining in the night and some of my things got wet which sucked cause half the group were set up under these basic shelter things and none of their stuff got wet. So we started hiking super early...maybe 7am? I forget but it was all uphill for the first 4 hrs and omg I was dying...I kept thinking to myself why am I doing this to my body?!!! And let alone why am I paying to do this?!! But I couldn't get too upset cause the landscape
Was just stellar and something ive never witnessed before! But then it starts to rain and it is like wicked ass cold...so I'm freezing my ass off and finally we get to the sulkantay mountain at 4630m and I can't see a single thing!! It's like cloudy and misty and I am so sad cause I know there's a stunning mountain behind all this crap and I just want to see it with all my being!! But I didn't have the chance to sulk too much cause the guides were pressing us onwards..  We then start our decent passing huayracmachay and finally setting camp at chaullay. I was so happy when I got there cause I knew the hardest part was over!! And it could only be smooth sailing from there!! So the start of day 3 we wake early, I had the. Best sleep ever cause we had our tents under these roofs that were somewhat shelter like...we were still exposed but we had a roof over our tents! We start trekking again but it wasn't nearly as long or hard as the day before and we end up arriving to the end of the trek path where we were met by vans and they took us to our next camp site. Here is where I basically got eaten alive by whatever the heck bugs were flying around and ughhh because we were essentially in like jungle terrain, it was hot and humid and just icky. We set up tents and head to the hot springs where again we got eaten alive.. Not cool. Day 4. I had to share my tent with this Italian guy who I had been sharing a tent with since day 1 and if was all done up until that point cause we always slept in a 2 person tent but last night we shared a one person tent and omg I had the worst sleep of my life...not only were we so fight and squished in there...the air was gross and I couldn't open the tents cause of the damn bugs so it was just not a fun night. So day 4 we start our trek from Santa Teresa and head to hidroelectrica. It was an easy trek that day..mostly flat and j ended up having such a great conversation with this English girl named Lauren and her and her bf were travelling the world for a yr and I couldn't help but envy and admire that at the same time.. She then told me about her siblings and how one sister is living in Hong Kong and she has a brother and sister in law working in Thailand teaching English and just so happy..  It sounded like she definitely came from a family where its normal to live abroad and go against the grain. Anyway after chatting with her it made me realise that I don't have to live the conventional life that everyone lives.. it's possible to go against the norm and just do what YOU wanna DO! I've always known this but its so hard for me to do because I'm so scared of going against what majority of people are doing :( anyway after trekking to aquas calientes we make our way to our hotels and meet up for dinner later on. At dinner our guide is not really hanging out with us but rather sitting at the bar and at that point alot of us had a problem with him. The whole trek he seemed to really not respect that everyone treks at a different pace and would get super annoyed if there were some slower trekkers. Anyway we ended up writing some bad reviews and boy did that and up biting us in the ass the next morning. So we meet on day 5 at 430 am and I walk in on him basically saying that we got him fired and that he wouldn't be taking us on the trek to MP! luckily I think our lack of enthusiasm for his ass like behavior made him reconsider and he told us he would meet us at the top. Holly mother going up those steps to MP was soooo hard!!! I was sweating buckets and was just telling myself that every step I take I am that much closer and finally I made it to the top! I felt soioo good!!! I was like on fire!! Bring on machu Picchu bitche$!!!! Anyways we get separated into an English and Spanish speaking group but unfortunately our guide Freddie was completely intoxicated. Long story short we were abandoned at MP and left to explore it ourselves. I climbed machu Picchu mountain which omg took like every fibre and ATP in my body to do! again as I was  hiking o kept asking myself...why? Why why why?!!!! This English dude named Josh had trekked at the same time and was really fast and the only thing keeping me going at times was that I knew he was there and waiting for our group members to come! Once I got to the top again I just felt so amazingly light and that I could literally do anything in the world that I wanted!! It was an amazing feeling and only can be experienced when you push your self to the absolute limit, and this was it for me! Anyways I ended up eating lunch there...big mistake!! I got a hotdog and pop for 30 soles which is $10 USD. The most expensive meal I've eaten since my travels! Anywho I ended up heading back to aguas caliente and had like so much time to kill that I ended up walking in the local markets and eating this amazing dinner that consisted of rice, beef, fried banana, fries etx! It was so cool sitting in front of this little stall on this dirty alley way and just eating with the locals! Anywho so I took the 950 train back and got in around 130 back to Cusco.

Cuzco

So its September 20 and I have almost been travelling for 3 weeks and damn, I cannot tell you where the time has flown.
So first off, I am now in Cuzco which is the city that allows you to enter Machu Picchu and it was super cute, lots of Spanish architecture and reminds me much of Arequipa. I arrived here on Thursday morning, ate an interesting breakfast with these 2 lovely ladies I met from France and from there made my way to the hostel.
Its interesting because I was asked to be a Mystery guest for this hostel here in Cuzco and I must say,  I have found the job to be kinda stressful! lol when I took on the job I was like hells yeahhhh I get to live for free basically, in exchange for sharing my opinions! how much better can life be but holly crap it was has been morally challenging. So let me elaborate, for one of my tasks, I am to ask some random staff members for access to marijuana or cocaine and at first I was like umm that is gonna be so challenging because A) I look like the nerdiest most prepared backpacker ever with my super techy clothes (aka Merino wool shirts and sweaters, patagonia pants etc you get the point) B) I do not drink a lick of alcohol (which btw I am pretty sure was one of the reasons I was asked to do this hahaha) and lastly just talking to me for a minute you come to the realization that I am not a party cray cray on spring break chica looking to cool off or relaxxxx. So anyways yesterday I was invited by one of the staff members to go on a [private tour[ one could say to one of his favorite destinations in town, this off the beaten track, lack of tourists cave like area. I was with a friend so I was like hells yea!!! anytime someone offers me a private tour of something non touristy, I will 100% oblige! So we get there and we are completely taking in all the landscape and for sure there were no other tourists, just some local Peruvian kids playing around and the hostel worker offers my friend and I weed. I say I dont smoke, but my friend does so he rolls one up. Now as this is all happening I{m thinking in my head shit! Do I report this?!! I don{t want to in case the dude gets fired but ahh then I am not really doing the job I was asked to do. Anyways I asked a girl that was staying in my dorm what she would do and she said she wasn{t sure but either way, is the right decision. I felt that she made a good point in saying that technically he wasnt doing anything wrong as he was off the grounds and wasnt really working and I totally agree. But I also feel like had I asked him on grounds, he probably wouldve hooked me up. Ughhh so that was my dilemma last night.
Anyway moving onto other things, ohhh I got wicked ass food poisoning a couple nights ago and I am pretty sure it was the food I ate at the hostel which is a shame but oh well what can you do except try to excrete the crap from your system as fast as you can...omg I hate getting sick while travelling because you literally have no one to take care of you and you feel like ass and just wanna go home and that is how I felt....i was really sad to be honest. But luckily that only lasted less than 24 hrs and by 10am the next day I was eating fruit and yeah, i am happy my body recovered quickly.
hmm what else...oh ok, so for some reason these past few days I have spent in Cuzco I havent enjoyed all that much and I couldnt figure out why...i know part of it was the hostel environment i was in...I felt like it was more of a party hostel for youngsters and at times I just felt out of place but a bigger issue that i came to realize was that i was feeling really empty and indifferent to like everything....it was like I couldnt appreciate where i was, what i was doing...i just felt nothing and it made me slightly uneasy. I dont know but sometimes i would see these people in my hostel in clumps and would think to myself, why am i not in a clump or why am i not hanging out with the same people on a day to day basis and i became really insecure about that...was i not fun to be around, was i not exciting enough etc? but it only happened when I arrived here in this hostel...i didn{t feel this way while i was in Arequipa so i wonder whether it was because I started seeing the way other backpackers were behaving and it made me question my own self. but it all changed today when I did a great yoga class at this place called the healing house and essentially it is a hostel however the people who stay have to have an intention as to why they want to stay there, so its not like you can just rock up, pay and be like yo give me a room sorta thing...which i quite admired so you knew that you were amongst individuals who were in their own particular journey of self discovery. i toyed with the idea of staying there, the minimum stay is 1 week and i feel like it could be quite nourishing for the soul. but after that i ended up mindlessly wandering around the streets, had a vegetarian lunch and after sat on the stone steps of the Plaza de Armas and again just feeling that really empty indifferent feeling and was kinda getting nervous like shit...is this what depression is? in that moment i saw this dog approach a young family and all he wanted was to just be petted but the man shooed him away and this dog went back again and again until the man literally started kicking him in the side and the dog cried as he ran away...then he came to me and I literally leaned back as he approached me cause I was scared that he may have had fleas. But then after coming to me he went to this lady sitting by herself and she embraced him with this warm smile and put her arm on his body and started petting him unconditionally. At that moment I literally burst into tears because i felt so bad for the dog but was so happy that this lady was being so sweet to him and that finally he was welcomed. I dunno why but I couldnt stop crying and thank god I had my sun glasses on cause otherwise I am pretty sure people would have thought i was insane lol. but it was in that moment that I FINALLY felt some form of emotion and I sort of snapped out of that indifferent coma I had been in for a while because even though i was feeling empathetic and sadness for the dog, I was feeling someTHING! which is sometimes all you need to remind yourself that hey you are alive and not just a ghost floating through this physical form we call reality.
what got me confused was that when the young family started to leave the dog followed them...even when the man turned back and gave a stern look to the dog as if he was trying to warn him to stay away, the dog held back a few seconds but again began trotting behind them always a few steps back...why did this dog want that man to accept him when he clearly was not wanted?! it was confusing and weird to me and all i could do was watch this dog trot behind the family until they disappeared into the colorful crowds...
anyways i couldnt  help but see parallels to my life and how sometimes we really make our lives difficult and complicated by wanting to be with people who dont want to be with us. its like we want love and validation from people who will never give it to us but we still try....my oh my...dear oh dear.
anyways i think that is enough blabbering for one night, I am hoping that by the next time i write an entry i will have made a decision as to whether i will take another weeks worth of spanish lessons and stay with a local family, book machu picchu or whatever hahaha! I realise that I am super indecisive and that I make alot of my decisions based on finances which i don{t really like because then I feel like i am not really listening to what it is I want...its more like is this activity justified by this pricetag attached to it? and really, who wants to live that way? Its like living in constant scarcity instead of abundance...ok thats a whole other topic that i can blabber on about for another day. wow i felt like i really unloaded here and im not gonna lie, it feels good to be able to express your feelings and not really give a damn what others are gonna think!
total love and respect to all,
until next time!
xo

Sept 5-15

Okay so its been a few days since I've landed and so far so good! I've met some really nice travellers and the latest 2 I've met are from none other than Toronto!! Met them this afternoon while I was mindlessly wondering the streets of Arequipa looking for a Spanish school. I found one and I think I'm gonna enroll. It seems quite professional and it costs about $15 for 2 hrs. The bus ride from Lima to Arequipa was 17 hrs long omggggg but it surprisingly flew by and the view was stunning. Exiting the city and congestion of lima, we drove along this long road that was never ending and on my left were stretches of
mountains that kept on going on as long as the road. Every now and then I would see these small communities that appeared very slum like and couldn't help but wonder what kind of life the people had living there. Then sun fell and the slums all lit up and it appeared to go quite deep into the mountains. During the day though they had all these colourful roofs but appeared to be held up by wooden legs, the barest of the bare forms of shelter. Anyway I ended up eating dinner on the bus and it was surprisingly yum! I had a little dish of rice, green mash potatoes and a tiny bit of chicken. I met this lady from Finland who had been travelling for 10 months and told me it has sort of turned into a lifestyle. I was amazed but I don't know if I could do that. The bus was pretty cool, the seats reclined like 55° and in front there was this platform that you pull down and you rest your legs on it so it's the closest thing to being flat. It was awkward cause I had to sit with this fairly overweight Peruvian man and when I was trying to sleep on my side, he was doing the same and our bums were like pressed up against each other ha-ha! When I arrived I hadn't booked any accommodation yet so I took a cab into the city and went to the first dorm hostel that I found and omg it is so not up to date...I'm the only guest there in a dorm for 4 people and the owner speaks no English so I am gonna be leaving tmr :p anywho that's all that's been happening so far ..trying to speak some simple Spanish every now and then but my god it is so hard not being able to speak or comprehend what is being spoken to me and just looking like a complete moron :( now I am sitting here in the Canadian couples hostel watching Harry potter, not really the way I wanna be spending my Saturday evening but I know I will be having some crazy canyon adventures in a little while! So the first 2 pics are of Arequipa, the first is from the city center and the second is of my hostel. Then we have more pics from Lima. One of them is of a local market that I bought some fresh juices at!

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Aug 31-15

I am sitting here, the night before take off and cannot quite find the words to describe how I feel. I am torn between excitement, fear, dread, happiness and uncertainty. In 24 hrs time I will be in Lima Peru...its crazy to think that...I will be in my hostel (Pariwana Hostel) and living in a dorm room with 14 other travellers! 
Ahhhh!!! Okay when I think of it that way, I start getting excited! 

So great to talk to some friends and see my famjam before the trip, thank you everyone for all the love and support! Will miss you guys so much! xoxoxo