There were more  funny (in retrospect)transportation and hostel snafus but I wont go into it. Let´s just say my tour into the jungle next week is going to be free. With that being said, I still believe that even when things are bad its still a wicked adventure.  I am meeting so many people from all over the world and I freakin love it! If I was rich I could easily drift for a long time.

Anyways I am going to go do a shamanic ceremony now. I took a wrong turn on my first day here and found this shamans ” office”. The shaman wasn’t there but his apprentice, Mike, was watching things. Mike and I had a long and interesting conversation about ancient Peruvian spirituality and the origins of their kind.  We discussed their indigenous ceremonies and he explained the difference between the effects of the ceremonial plant medicines Ayahuasca and San Pedro. I was curious but told him I would mull it over then call him from Machupiccu. I was still hedging on the idea of whether I was brave enough to do this, but when I ran into Mike today and he told me there was three other people doing the “opening” ceremony I decided to go for it.

So yeah..Now I am heading off to do a strange drug in a strange land administered by a man who has nine human skulls of his ancestors on an alter in his living room. I am sure this is somewhere in the handbook of what not to do while travelling solo in a foreign country – yet somehow this makes perfect sense to me. LOL