Tell Guns and Roses: Thanks.

Hi,

If you don't understand my title, that's ok. You just don't rock quite hard enough. Unless you're my grandparents, in which case you still do.

I'm in Tarapoto, Peru which is kind of a neat place. It's half in the mountains and half in the rainforest. Basically it looks rainforesty, but you have less of the bugs and heat. As for the town, everyone and their mother drives a motorcycle. Literally there's about 95% motorcycle traffic, and there are motorcycle taxis which are kind of fun to ride in. It's like a carriage being pulled by a motorcycle, and they all swerve to get around each other on bumpy roads. And I must say there are also a lot of pretty women here. I was being driven along in a motorcycle taxi when I saw a gorgeous woman walking down the side of the road carrying a machette. Could be that I'll meet my wife here someday!

Anyways, I visited some waterfalls today called las Cataratas de Ahuashiyacu. Unfortunately I'm not able to upload pictures right now, but they were beautiful. Well, it was basically one waterfall, and there were some others in the forest behind it. I went on something of a mini-adventure with my motorcycle taxi driver into the forest trying to get to another one, but we were unsuccessful. When we returned to the first waterfall he announced to me that he was going bathing and stripped down to his underwear to jump into the pool. He was an adventurous but good-natured fellow.

Tomorrow I'm going to head out on a boat into the Amazon, and will be out of contact for about a week until I get to Iquitos, Peru. Hopefully I'll have a good post for you then!

Chau,
Esteban