finally left lima after staying a few extra days....view of cityscape from coast road, even desert looks like rain plan was to go to nazca and see the lines then head over toward cuzco and macchu picchu. ride out was good start and mostly desert sand dune-mountain riding...good road , good time making. got about an hour from nazca and things turned a bit odd.....first some dude laying naked in the sand along side the road-freak... then pulled in for gas and simons clutch cable broke...shite stranded. what now. saw a truck and asked him to put the bike in back he said ok for $20. done. loaded up the bike and off. luckily it was all close to a town as the rest of the ride had been pretty desolate. got to dealer and he had plenty off cable, thread it in and all fixed in about 10 minutes and charged $1.25....funny how things can go from total stuck one minute to fine the next......
so strange because everything else about latin america lifestyle moves at a snails pace. next to me a semi reversed on the interstate smashing into one car pushing it 10 feet back into the next for another 20ft. Why? Who knows. I have been trying to figure out why the mad driving in all of the countries and the only thing I can come up with is lack of intelligence. I read that the average iq of latin americans is the same as north american teenagers….true or not I don’t know but if that is the case it would explain the mad driving.....adults with teenage driving mentality. 
...donkey or llama?
ride out of the mountains and over to lima lead to great ocean views cut into sandcliff coastline road….
When arrived to mf right away noticed two things…great night life….. and police everywhere for APEC trade meeting with world leaders…even bush is here (though most Peruvians would prefer it be obama as they all go off when I say im from US.) Too bad they’re not talking OPEC…peru could use the price of gas lowered. Paid $6.30 gallon for 95 octane today, highest price of trip. been here for a few days, oil chang in the morning and back on the road
colorful suburbs.... modern and old city
staying just off kennedy park...lot of art sales 
chicken and rice for seemingly 75 straight days.......eyes lit up when i saw this mcdonalds and attacked it! 
off road and gravel riding up and across the mountains stopping in tiny towns where I am pretty sure Im the only gringo they have seen in person or one of just a few in their lives. What clearly stands out the most is my heigth…If there was a pick-up bball game I would dominate… crushing every attempted shot back into their starring little heads! I am a giant up here!
People look with friendly faces most of the time, occasional “aloe hi are u” picked up from tv. they have Tvs up here? Yep, satellite at the one village restaurant always blasting at full volume. pure truth…latin america does not like silence… ever. Music, tv, horns,… whatever noise its always cranked up.
(maybe its because i park the bike inside)
riding is incredible but in altitude this high the bike doesn’t have its usually power. Some of the road conditions have definatley pushing my skill level on big bike….good practice for Bolivia where they say the roads are sand horse shite. 
simon goes down...
After crossing rugged peaks you get into mountian highlands with zigzagging roads and no life in sight, complete away from everything like I remember feeling on fishing boats. 
Admittedly after a few days I was glad to start seeing civilization again on the way back down even if its generally filled with garbage stank smells, horns blasting for no apparent reason, however I am starting to think there is a code. 1 for watch out, 2 beeps for need a taxi? Three beeps for hot chick walking, and programmed tune beeps for im bored with nothing to do but honk for no reason.
one of these dogs is doing his own thing....they didnt want to play with him because as lambs go, he just wanted to buck and headbutt 
pretty smart to have an irrigation system in the city way back then
chimu were water people…..evident in their architecture where the x designs represented fish nets and borders of fish, seals, and seabirds on almost every wall.
They are still excavating a lot of the grouds. site was discovered in 1890. 
kept thinking star wars movie..... luke skywalker came walking down a corridor 
