The Trip Home

My trip has come and gone in a blink of an eye and in a couple of days I will be facing the day to day challenges of life back in Huntsville Alabama! This does not mean that this trip is all for none, to the contrary, this trip has helped me put one more piece in the big jigsaw puzzle that represents our world! The more pieces I put together the closer I will be to understanding the world around us and answering some pertinent questions as to the role of each piece in this world. That is the quest I have decided to pursue for as long as my physical and financial health permit me to. There is so much to see and learn that one's lifetime may not be enough to complete the puzzle, but we have to try, because not trying is synonymous to failure and failure is not an option! So let's build this puzzle and understand how we all fit in it!!!

Here are some final pictures from the trip....

Cusco's night life; plaza de Armes buzzing with people late into the night even on Sunday!!!

Stores, restaurants and coffee shops are open late into the night in Cusco

Taking a picture with a traditionally dressed girl in front of a restaurant

A young girl works in her parents' shop in a Cusco market. Our tourist money helps the future of these kids!

For someone who studies jets, what an ideal noisy seat to have in the plane!!!

The end of this trip brings this blog to a temporary holt until my next trip. I hope the friends and family members who followed this blog for the last two weeks enjoyed the pictures and were not annoyed by my comments! Hopefully you traveled virtually with me while at home or at work. On a personal level, this was not a big chore at all as I had plenty of time once in my hotel room. The blog also gave me something to do other than turning the TV on, which I avoided completely, or reading some depressing news on the internet so all in all it was a win-win idea for this trip!!

Thanks for all your personal comments! They helped fix my mistakes or typos... Until next time don't forget that there is a whole world out there waiting for you to explore, a fascinating and exciting one too and if this not enough to motivate you, think of all the poor people in this world that depend on your tourist money!!