On to Ecuador

So we met up in Lima and were there a couple of days in Mira Flores. Its a nice area but I don´t think it reflects the rest of the city all that well. We then bused it up to Trujillo, it took about 9-10 hours without anything like a real view. Much of the trip was coastal desert, maybe a little more interesting if we got out and walked around but not all that from the window of a bus. Trujillo on the other hand was a very cool place, with cool Moche ruins on the outskirts. We met some locals the first night and were dinking rum and cokes and whiskey and waters with them in the central park the next. Two girls kept walking passed, and each time our friends would tell us that they were lesbians. Eventually, after having embibed enough of the liquid confidence, I figured I´d go and find out if it were true, a nice polite excuse me and they stopped, slowly turned, and shot back with a very deep ¨¿Que Hay¨ or What´s Up? I tried to stay composed at the site of two men in drag and said I was sorry and that I thought they were someone else. I turned to walk back to my friends in the center and hung my head. It´s about then that I could hear the laughter, they all thought it was nice and hilarious including Pete. I see the humor in it now but it took me a little while. We then stayed a night in Chiclayo a nice place but nothing much to speak of, and now we´re in Mancura a surf beach near the border of Ecuador. We´ll be up there soon visiting a friend of ours from Peace Corps, but right now we figure we´ll stay for a few days in order ot give us a little break from the buses.