I wish we had more time here. Could have used an other day or two to explore locally but it is what it is.
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The dunes at Huacachina were absolutely stunning, with many of the dunes towering at 500 meters. Yes meters, not feet. These were absolutely massive and gave you a feeling of being in such a desolate far away land. The sunset from top of one such dune was spectacular. Needless to say way too many Dune references were made.
Generally feel like the food is just universally better anywhere else but USA. It’s a pity because given the melting pot and diversity of USA you would think the food would be better! Also omg Peruvian food 😍😍😍
It’s interesting to see how much of Peru is just desert! and the pacific fog that engulfs the area – I honestly it was just a California and Pacific Northwest thing – but it’s also here too!
Oh we also saw cute little useless turnips called ICE loitering around DCA airports. it’s embarrassing – everyone including themselves know they are just walking around doing nothing in particular while getting paid while the TSA guys around them are all working without pay for doing a thankless job.
Just less than a decade ago our trips would start out with us coming in morning, keeping our bags at the hotel coz our booking wouldn’t start till 3pm and then just head out for sightseeing. Now? We book the prior night as well even if we check in next day coz we need a few hours to recharge after night long flights. The first half of day is just chilling to recoup from air travel before we start our sight seeing. Age brings its benefits and wisdom – something we would have considered an unnecessary thing, is now a must have – I.e booking the hotel room for prior night so we have room to check into next morning!
Didn’t sleep well but I finally connected with my friend and phew it felt good to talk.
On the other hand a lot of satellite locations have not opened for voting yet in norther Virginia. Once they open next week will there be a change? Who knows. We ourselves are also voting next week after more satellite locations open.
The VA redistricting efforts will fail IMO, more because democrats don’t want it themselves rather than republicans doing a great job of canvassing. If by miracle it passes it mostly will because people have their eyes open but just way democrats are going about it is convincing me that they don’t want it either.
The trailer for new Harry Potter hbo series doesn’t look too bad but a bold decision to switch race for severeus snape. my guess is they switched the race to a black man because they simply couldn’t find another white man at the level of Alan Rickman and by making the character black they can focus the conversation on his race.