MACHU PICHU

So we finally made it to the end of our travels all in one piece! Bikes are still in good shape and we have got a buyer for them in Lima on Friday!!!Even made a little dinero on the bikes too. Hopefully this guy won´t back out. getting to Cuzco and Machu Pichu took a lot longer than planned. We drove for 2 days straight and only stopped for church in Nazca. The members there were very, very kind and the branch president kept thanking us for coming all the way from Utah just to visit his little branch. We assured him that was the only reason that we had driven 10000 miles across 2 continents, and then we gave him our ties. He was so grateful and kept giving us hugs.(I think he really believed it). On the way to Cuzco we hit 15000 ft and once again we froze a little.and the bikes did not like it at all. Kinda like pushing a couple of donkeys up a hill, but we made it to the summit and then ran into a bad truck accident. The driver was hauling a semi loaded with chicken eggs and ran off the road and so there was omelet for about 100 yards all over the road. Somehow he was OK, but the truck and the eggs were toast. Machu Pichu was everything it is cracked up to be and more!! We left our bikes in another town and took the train up the canyon and spent the day touring the ruins. Just as we were finishing up checking the place out, DEVIN SPOTTED GOLD!!! Soft serve ice cream in chocolate and vanilla!!! I named it INCA ICE CREAM and had to go back for 2nds. If nothing else the whole trip was well worth the ice cream at the top of Machu Pichu. No kidding they had an ice cream machine up there!! It was like a big trophy at the end of the race!!!! Well it has been a really good trip and if I had to do it again I would buy a better seat to save myself a little pain. Other than that I wouldn´t do a whole lot different. We got to see way to many waterfalls to count and indian ruins in more than one country and the people we met were too kind to express in words. We stayed with strangers and were helped countless times by people curious in our little expedition and the language wasn´t as big a barrier as it should have been. The best part of the trip was all the people we met and made friends with along the way from Mexico to San Blas Islands to Columbia and Peru, people really have been way to kind to us. I never really felt in any danger and the occasional police road block that left us without gas money for a few miles was really more entertaining than hazardous. So there you have it, If anyone is thinking of making the same trip.........they have really good ice cream at the top of Machu Pichu.