time to get a move on!

4 Dec
Having five hours of down time waiting for a ferry off Isla de Sol was not much fun. However it gave us nothing better to do than read some guidebooks of other travellers and take stock of where we are in the big scheme.

The revelation comes hard and fast and its not pretty..

We have spent 50 days in Bolivia. Its been a real mixture of great expereices, time well away from any other gringos, a bit of frustration at timres but añways living exceptionaly cheap. We started this trip with the intention to cruise as slowly as possible, and finish wherever we may be after 6 months. And thats exactly what we have done.

But now we realise that theres loads of things we want to see further North, and Sara is determined to spend the last few weeks of the trip in Italy. This leaves us maybe 2.5 months till we fly to Europe. That might have sounded like a decent length of time once, but having spent that long and only coming this far, it suddenly sounds rediculously short. Most of the "highlights" I have been looking foward to are way up North too. Starting in Ecuador in fact.

After spending the entire ferry ride back to Copacobana deliberating, we make a plan to fly (again...) from Cusco to Lima after seeing Muchu Picchu, thus avoiding the classic gringo trail along this route which most do in three weeks. Then scurry up the Norther Peru into Ecuador. Maybe we will see the Galapogos, we have a few leads for trying to do it on the cheap. Then Colombia, sailing to Panama, the canal, and Central American islands.

Is this the right decisiion???? We dint really know....