I woke up to the sun shining in my window at 7:00am, the brilliant blue sky welcoming me to the true start of the expedition.  Following a rather uneventful morning of breakfast (not nearly as good as lunch and dinner yesterday – rather runny scrambled eggs and non-drinkable brown water that had a sign reading “coffee” on …

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Finally we’re on the road and getting closer to the true expedition – in fact tomorrow will be our first day of walking.  Today was busy finalizing the logistics, driving to Penitentes and readying the duffel bags for the mules. Which was not so busy really, most of the afternoon was rest time.  Listening to …

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