We stopped in Callao/Lima, Peru on January 20, 2008. The weather has been good. Lima is a very interesting city. All of the cities on the coast of Peru are essentially desert areas with all of their water received via irrigation systems from rivers and reservoirs from the Andes mountains. The city is beautiful with many small parks and wide boulevards. The median areas are covered with many plantings and flowers. The structure of the city is now much more secure but they went through a period of national revolution from 1980 to 1995.
For the next 5 days we will be at sea. It started out and has continued to be fairly rocky with winds up to 25 knots. Tin does well and I am doing alright as long as I am “medicated.” There also has been some problem with a Norovirus onboard the ship. This has affected many passengers and crew. They are treating with quarantining passengers, etc. So far I have dodged it, but Tin was not as lucky. He did not have a severe case thank goodness. He had to stay in 1 day, which was the day of the Packer’s game. So that was not so bad until of course they lost! We have been keeping active with exercising, attending some lectures that are held onboard on various subjects, reading, and watching the Australian Open tennis tournament. We will arrive at Easter Island on January 26, 2008.
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