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Met this wonderful family in Huancayo today – these four brothers fixed my mototaxi, and then they (along with mom and two younger sisters) took me on a tour of some Incan ruins on the edge of town. #mototaxijunket #peru
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I stopped in the central plaza of Huancayo for breakfast and was approached by these 5 giggly girls with a video camera. "Hello, do you speak English? Can we do an interview with you?" Of course I agreed. They are students studying English and their assignment was to interview an English speaker. I gave them a tour of my mototaxi, told them some stories and gave them a "patito." I'm amazed that in an entire day in the city center of busting 500,000 person metropolis that I have not seen another "Gringo." Actually, I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen tourists in Peru (other than fellow junketeers) since the rally began. Funny thing too, because parts of Peru (ie: Machu Picchu) are known as the "gringo trail" and are swarming with foreign tourists. #mototaxijunket #peru
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Night falls once again on my mascot / roof duck. When people ask why I have rubber duckies all over my Mototaxi, I tell them for "buen suerte" – good luck. But if this duck's main job is to help me ward off break downs, he utterly ineffective. #mototaxijunket #buensuerte #rubberduckies
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Brenda (left) and Selena (right) – two sisters that I gave rubber duckies to while their four teenage brothers fixed my mototaxi. These girls really dug the patitos! #mototaxijunket #rubberduckies
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So many routes to choose from! None of them are paved, and all of them feature insane switchbacks and crazy death cliffs. I am in Huancayo (upper left) and need to get to Ayacucho (lower right) by tomorrow afternoon. Which route should so take? #mototaxijunket
Here is a video of YouTube of the upcoming route: