March 14, 2004
Cusco, Peru

the transport strike of several weeks ago in lima seems to have taken 2 weeks to work its way down here.  while the folks around here don't seem to be able to rally a line of trucks and busses 5 miles long to slow things down, they did manage to put some rocks in the road and get a local newspaper photographer out just in the nick of time to get a picture off before a bunch of angry drivers went and cleared them away.

this road from cusco to puno (near lake titicaka and the border with bolivia) is the one that i will be taking monday or tuesday on my way south.

kind of a shame the rocks are already gone... jesse would have made short work of them.

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