día de san valentín
hola todos

i´ve been lucky enough to meet up with some great new friends, one from sweden and one from ireland, and have been hanging and traveling with them for the past few days. it is nice to have new friends who seem like old friends.

mmm... i am almost to ecuador. peru is pretty awesome, cooler than the last time i was here (in 2004). i only am sort of sunburned... i am trying to be most careful. i met some sweet friends in puno, on lake titicaca, a few weeks ago (i will post on this laterz), and hung out with them one night in lima, which was great fun.

from lima, i took the bus to trujillo, where we visited some ruins and mostly were lazy on the beach (and it was awesome). now we are in mancora, almost to the ecuador-peru border... for more beach time. i will meet nora in guyaquil on saturday!!!! and from there we go to our apartment in quito, where i hopefully will have some kind of job with a prof from UCLA that works in ecuador.

hope everyone has a great vday, i spent my morning in a natural hot spring covered in kind of stinky mud, supposedly good for my skin... we´ll see....