Day 44

38,622 – 38,671 49 Miles today (15,971 Miles Overall)

Cusco, Peru – Pisac, Peru

I’ve been so tired from the lack of sleep the last week and even here in Cusco. I’m pretty sick. I either got covid on the hike or a really bad cold. I woke up at 6 naturally unfortunately and decided to work on the blog and edit pictures for about 4 hours.

I went out yesterday and spent 3 hours looking for a place to get insurance for my bike since my one month policy was up a few days ago. I’m getting a bit antsy sitting around in Cusco so I decided I would take the bike to a small town called Pisac for a little day trip. It was only about an hour away and it was nice to rip around on the bike with no luggage. I had a nice lunch there and tried a bunch of different juices on the side of the road. When I went to start my bike it wouldn’t start. It didn’t do what it did a few weeks ago but close. After about 30 seconds it started. Now I’m getting pretty nervous that I might break down again. I headed up into the mountains to see some ruins like Machu Picchu. It wasn’t even close to the site but I might as well go check it out. On my way up there I started to get very stressed out about the bike being broken.

I went for a short hike at the ruins and couldn’t even enjoy it or see it all because of how stressed I was. I went back to the bike pretty quickly and thankfully it started. At the bottom of the mountain I met a man from Colombia on an Africa twin. We spoke for a minute and I didnt understand too much since he didn’t speak any Spanish. I shot back to Cusco and hung out for a few hours in the hostel, did a little workout there and went to the gym to get back in action with my pull up game.

I met up with everyone from the hike at Organika and we all got dinner. I called it a night pretty early because I was planning on leaving tomorrow to head out to Rainbow mountain and then to see a beautiful hand made rope bridge the Inca people remake every year.