May 8: First Day in Lima

The group wasn’t meeting till 11 AM so I went out for a walk.  I got lost, of course.  I did learn that standing at the crosswalk does NOT give pedestrians the right of way and that even when you have a Walk light the motorcyclists ignore it.  I tried to get cash and the card was declined; realized later I was using the Fidelity credit card and not the debit card.  The latter worked.  Phew!

Good group- only 4 of us plus the guide.  The 2 guys from FL were together.  The third was a retired engineer from John Deere.  He spent a year as an exchange student in Costa Rica; the couple are searching for a house in Mexico.  All speak passable Spanish.  I can understand them.  Maybe I’ll pick up more while I’m here.

The stand below was featured on a Netflix documentary of street food so of course we had to sample their picarones.

Pisco sour- very good.