This is a series in which I describe a typical Tuesday during our travels. This will give you an idea of what we do on an average day – sometimes exciting and sometimes mundane.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016: Nasca, Peru

7:25am – The alarm goes off. We both shower and get dressed.

8:01am – Breakfast on the patio at our hostel. We have rolls, butter, jam, a peach juice box, coffee, and a fried egg.

8:38am – We go back to the room to brush our teeth and get ready for our flight.

8:50am – We go outside to wait for the transport to the airport.

8:54am – The van picks us up first then drives around Nasca to pick up a few others.

9:14am – We arrive at the airport and check in at the counter for Air Paracas. We have to pay an airport tax (25 soles per person, or $14.59 total) and get weighed so that they can distribute weight evenly on the plane. They ask Jon and I if we mind splitting up to help with the weight distribution, so we end up going on two different planes.

The check-in desk for AeroParacas in the Nasca airport.

9:26am – We wait and watch a video about the Nasca Lines and Nasca culture that they have running on a loop.

10:01am – Lana gets called with her group to go through security.

10:11am – Jon gets called to go through security.

10:12am – Lana and her group walks to the plane and everyone takes a quick picture in front before getting in. My seat is right behind the pilot on the left, so I’ll have good views! We take off and are in the air for about 30 minutes total, flying all around the countryside and view 12 of the formations that we can see from the air (more on the flight in the next post!). (490 soles for both of our flights, including transportation, or $142.94)

Lana’s airplane for the Nasca Lines flight!

10:22am – Jon and his group walks to the plane and gets in. His seat is also right behind the pilot so we got the same views!

The view right behind the pilot, looking over the mountains.

10:57am – Lana lands and goes back to the waiting room to wait for Jon.

11:07am – Jon lands and meets up with Lana. We buy a few postcards to mail to friends. (2 soles or $0.58)

11:19am – We take the van back to the city.

11:37am – We arrive back to our hostel.

12:13pm – We walk to a nearby restaurant for lunch, called Restaurant El Huarango. It’s located on the 3rd story of a building, in what looks to be someone’s home. We each order a Cusquena beer while we wait for our food.

1:08pm – Our food arrives. Jon got a fish ceviche and I got fried fish with fries. The dishes are both made with a different kind of fish than we are used to eating in Peru and we don’t like them as much as the others we have had.

Jon’s ceviche for lunch – not quite the same as what we have come to expect in Peru.

1:45pm – We finish eating and pay our bill. (60 soles or $17.50)

2:01pm – On our way back to the hostel after lunch, we stop at a small corner store for snacks and water. (11.50 soles, or $3.35)

2:04pm – Walking back, we pass a house that has one grapevine in front. I stop to take a picture since it’s rather unusual.

Grapes hanging in front of a house in Nasca – a random sight!

2:11pm – We get back to our room. We lay down to read but end up falling asleep for a long nap.

5:48pm – Jon wakes up and plays some video games.

5:59pm – Lana wakes up. We both work for a bit – responding to email, posting pictures on Facebook, texting our families, editing videos for Techworld and Devin’s high school that we made in Puerto Lopez, etc.

Working on a video quiz about Puerto Lopez for Techworld for their 12 Days of Christmas events.

7:54pm – I’m having trouble uploading any pictures to the blog so log onto chat support. Jon goes back to the corner store to get a few more snacks and drinks since we don’t feel like going out to eat for dinner. (22.50 soles or $6.56)

A few of the snacks Jon brought back – nice healthy dinner!! (tomorrow, we’ll eat better, I promise!)

8:15pm – Jon gets back with snacks.

11:24pm – I finally log off the chat support, after 2 sessions and having not solved my problem (they ended up telling me it’s my problem and they can’t help me with it since it looks fine on their end, yet I still can’t upload a picture). I’m frustrated so we quit for the night and get ready for bed.