Travels with John Smith Patti Fedrau (Layne)

Travels with John Smith
Chapter 60 year 9 (2020)
Peru Part 3
Machu Picchu, Cusco Carnival


-train ride beside the Urubamba River
-eating guinea pig in Aguas Calientes
-Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu
-a Book called, “Turn Right at Machu Picchu”
-Walking around Machu Picchu 
-Market choices in Cusco
-Rainbow Flag
-One advantage of altitude
-dancers twirling
-Spraying foam for fun
-Refuge above the square
-Mayhem below
-discovery
- like secret agents
-no escape
-altitude sickness and homesick
-Mom’s 90th
-COVID 19 comes to Saskatchewan
-Things get cancelled
-Back to the present
-future plans with John Smith
-email addresses for you to contact us
-Thank you

Travels with John Smith
Chapter 59 year 9 (2019-2020)
Peru Part 2
Arequipa and Cusco


-Another Plaza de Armas
-Hotel with a view
-Zig Zag is delicious
-The Cathedral that kept coming back
-A room for a jewel thief
-white volcanic rock in a quarry
-under the charm of some alpacas
-a mummy named Juanita
-potato tasting
-Monastery village
-Cusco introduction
-Altitude sickness is real
-Cathedral built on top of a temple
-starting to spread
-cheeky artists get into the paintings
-Sacsayhuaman big rocks
-Cusco views a photo op

Travels with John Smith
Chapter 58 year 9 (2020)
Peru Part 1
Lima, Trujillo and Huanchaco


-Lima’s Ceviche
-The cliffs above the Pacific Ocean
-Larcomar shopping mall 
-Barranco art
-The Larco museum and erotic art
-Peruvian Hairless
-1st class bus ride 
-Steve and Nancy show us around
-Huanchaco living
-Purple jellyfish
-Tacu Tacu my new fav food
-Chan Chan mud palace
-Trujillo’s kilometre long mosaic wall
-Temples of the sun and moon
-Deserted beach and discovering Inca Cola
-Thai restaurant in a ghost town

-Thank you
-An apology 
-further dates to listen
-Anything is possible 

Travels with John Smith
Chapter 57 year 9 (2019-2020)
London, Canada and Ecuador


-cool places in London
-back in Canada
-finding a place to live
-stuff in a truck from BC
-boxes, painting and settling
-planning a trip for Chinese NY
-Xmas with family
-1st hearing about the virus in Wuhan
-masks or not? 
-Boutique hotel in Quito
-Old town Unesco site
-Eating chicken with the locals
-A volcano where people live and crops grow
-neighbourhood watch during the riots
-middle of the world
-experiments on the equator
-Amazonian and Indigenous customs
-‘The Queen of Water’ true story
-guinea pigs and deadlier animals
-chocolate and the making of it
-the plaza and it’s going on
-5:00 AM at the bus station
-12 hours plus on a bus
-Manta, the beach
-Henry’s double
-Christian’s seafood heaven
-flying is faster
-food poisoning?
-altitude sickness?

Travels with John Smith
Chapter 56 year 8 (2019)
Berlin and Lisbon
(We love Europe)


-Checkpoint Charlie
-buying a piece of the wall
-The ‘Fraternal kiss’
-What the Brandenburg Gate represents
-Naked Entertainment in the Pariser Place
-German Pretzels 
-View from the River Spree
-The Cement maze memorial
-victims of the Holocaust
-Topography of Terror
-Bikini Berlin Mall
-Buddy Bear Project
-The post office
-Naked fountain
-a steep climb 
-1st view of Lisbon
-Fish and Fado
-the Praco do Comercio square 
-Polish tuk tuk driver
-the white church with a view
-Miradouro Largo das Portas do Sol custard tarts
-the weekend market shoe shop
-train to Sintra
-meeting with Bryce in Cascais
-more views in the old quarter 
-Fado CD’s