2 Go Global begins in CUSCO, PERU.

After months and months of planning, the moment has come. At 10:30 pm on September 24, 1999, we wave goodbye to family and friends: Don, Emily, Lou and Andrea, as we board our Delta flight to Lima, Peru. We land in Lima, Peru hours later at 4:30 am. We are tired, anxious, excited, and green. Our plan is to fly immediately to Cusco, where we will stay for a while and study Spanish. We allow a woman with an "official" tourism badge to "assist" us in purchasing plane tickets to Cusco. She leads us all over the airport and eventually chooses a ticket counter and takes our passports before approaching the counter. She tells us that she will take care of it. Then we ask ourselves: "Who is this woman? Why won't she allow us to speak with the ticket agents? Why did we give her our passports?" Our red alert flag goes up and we decide to abort immediately. We approach the woman, kindly request the return of our passport and even offer her $5 for her trouble. We can do this ourselves. In fifteen minutes we have tickets for Cusco on our terms. We have learned what not to do when we arrive into a foreign country.

Late in the morning we arrive in Cusco. We have jumped from sea level to 11,000 feet, and we can feel it. However, the magic and in-your-face culture of Cusco, Peru amazes us and we know immediately that our decision to go global was one of the best decisions we have ever made.

Snapshots from Cusco

We spend our first afternoon in La Plaza de Armas which is the heart of Cusco. Pictured here is La Compania de Jesus in La Plaza de Armas.

Another view of La Plaza de Armas, formerly the great civic square of the Incas upon and around which great assemblies and parades would occur. Tupac Amaru, the last Incan Emperor, was executed here.

Parades still assemble in La Plaza. Although we do not know the occasion of the parade that we were able to experience on September 25, 1999, we do know that Jesus es el senor (Jesus is the man).

above: View from our $6 usd room. above: An indigenous Quechuan woman.

above: Rich drinks coca tea to fight off         above: Kelly admires some of the amazing
his altitude sickness at 11,000 feet.                Inca stonework which may be found
Notice the coca leaf on rim of his cup.            throughout Cusco. The stones are cut
                                                                    with such perfection that no mortar was
                                                                    ever used.

Sergio, Rich, Kelly and Yohn at Sacsaywaman, Inca Ruins next to Cusco

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