DAY #3, Entry #3 - Return trip and the city

A couple of short notes:

1. After doing some quick math, it appears that over the 28 hour period of my return trip, I will be in the air for just over 12 hours, and will have visited five different airports (Cusco, Lima, Houston, Seattle and Spokane). Not sure who planned this leg of the trip, but he should be shot.

2. The buildings in the city of Lima are amazing. There is a striking mix between old and new (and old means 17th century old). The have renovated some of the old buildings to be new, massive stores, while others probably don't look much different than the day they were built. The mixture is amazing, and its very obvious that they did so because of the limited space. So much of this city is so old, and there is so little room to do anything other than use what was already there. In some cases, century old churches reside right next to renvated superstores. I wonder what the price of real estate is here in the city....

3. I'm dying to find a set of Peruvian statistics, to find out how many people are killed each year trying to cross the road. There must be an insane amount, because cars fly into intersections filled with people at about 45 mph. The people simply think, no cars are within 20 feet, I'll cross. They all have death wishes, if you ask me

4. The city is much different during the week than on the weekend. Its a good thing I went out exploring yesterday, and great that I hit the churches while they were open. Many are closed now, and I would have missed some very beautiful sights. Many of the shops that were walled in or caged up are open now, and the look of the streets has changed because of that. Still very primative, but better.

I'm off now to rest a little!