The days are passing here at Swiss Wassi (“Swiss House” in Quechua), the campground on the beach.
GANNET2 needs a clean and the next time we leave the campground a car wash is high on my list. However the plan for Tuesday is that quite possibly Layne will get a ride from Melba to go food shopping so driving I hope is not on the agenda. Rusty likes it here, which is no surprise.
Peru is home to Paddington Bear of course but also to hairless dogs of which there is one here owned by Jacques (the Swiss guy) and Melba (his Peruvian wife).
It’s weird to the touch that dog, hot dry skin with just few stray bristles here and there. It looks scorched but he’s so sweet and I’m always sneaking him treats.
Rusty caught me petting him yesterday afternoon, much barking and gnashing of teeth. There is a line in the gravel now and this side is Rusty’s space; no trespassing.
Alberto from Buenos Aires left on a high note after two days here which gave him time to watch Spain beat England and better yet his home team of Argentina beat Colombia. He’s an architect and spent five years in New York but he said he was the only Argentine in an office filled with Colombians so his English did not improve and he was glad we spoke Spanish.
As Webb Chiles is fond of saying: soccer breaks down barriers and he keeps telling me to keep up because it’s what Latin Americans like. I do my bit and in between power outages I got to see England trip and fail.
I liked Alberto’s single cylinder 300cc Chinese wheels but he had a huge mound of luggage to pile on the back. He hasn’t didn’t much of his life traveling but he’d make up for it now with a complete tour of South America and plans to put a rooftop tent on a four wheel drive and doing more of the touring thing in greater comfort.
There’s an American from Washington State who has parked his motorcycle here, a heavily modified Harley Davidson. You can get permission in Peru to suspend your permit and leave your vehicle in the country up to a year which is why lots of travelers go home for the summer from here.
Tomas and Juliana from Belo Horizonte in Brazil left in their Ford Transit van heading for Alaska. They were great fun while they were here and I think they will enjoy wherever they go.
A Chilen family has showed up and two red vans traveling together, one Swiss and one German also came to this well known campground.
Aside from being the sole Americans everywhere we go we are also unusual inasmuch as we are retired and have no deadlines. There are of course Europeans who are traveling on open ended schedules retired or not but most of the travelers we meet are on a time restricted journey. There’s a boat on the horizon to take them back to real life. Many of them are looking forward to going home too, the sabbatical has been great and now it will be great at home.
Melba, to the left below standing next to Jacques who is the onein the striped shirt introducers to a drinking game without beer as Layne decreed Monday a dry night.
It’s not complicated wherein you toss a heavy metal token at the stand and get it in a hole to render points. 12 tokens to a turn and Melba kept score.
Layne was CB leading with more than 6000 points when I had to walk Rusty and the sun headed to the horizon. It was a fun trilingual game with French thrown in the mix.
Chileans and Americans in the front rank with German speakers inland:
Let’s be clear, we haven’t really tasted Peru yet but this is pretty good living in this Swiss enclave.
Too windy to swim in the afternoon but we aren’t in a hurry to leave.
80 degrees or more by day and 70 by night is perfect. No insects bites and not much sweating. My kind of beach.
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