I worry about Houston and the flooding. And they worry about me.

I heard it's not all about me and my leg.  

I have gotten several inquiries from friends to confirm I'm not flooded.  

(i guess some folks are not reading my blog?)

I'm NOT in Texas anymore. 

Lynn the question sister, and sister Jane the commenter.

This week i have gotten contact, and questions from:

Mike Ruddy

My Aunt Nona

Dominic Caparelli

Mike Henderson

Jose Cadena

Greg and Susan Harris

Jarod Cox

Melanie McDonald

Cathy Vidobeck

Doug Haye

The Sisters

Denise and Bill Sears *

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Sunday, Denise and Bill Sears* gave me a ride to Marathon to get my car and bicycle.  Now i have my own ride.  Thanks Bill and Denise.  It was fun to have such a great visit with you both.  It's great to have my wheels again!  Denise told this great story about her 2 visits to Machu Picchu.

Once there, I was on a 22 year old mission:  to find some children I had met in 1992...giving an impromptu English-Spanish lesson on the ground next to the train tracks.

I guessed that most were still there, doing what their parents had done years before.

We headed to the train depot to check our return tickets;  I turned around, overwhelmed with what I thought would be a fruitless attempt:

Apparently AC was no longer a sleepy little village; it had grown to accommodate the many people who come to see the ruins; there were now hundreds, no probably close to a 1000 stalls sprawling from the train station to a new indoor market area. Vendors were still selling fruit, candy, souvenirs to the thousands of tourists who pass by en route to MP.

< I took out my photo from 22 years ago, a bit leery of the task ahead,

and scanned for any vendor who looked the age of someone who had been 5-8 years old back then.

This is where it gets into Goose bump territory:

The very FIRST woman I walked up to, WAS one of the children in the picture!

Within minutes, vendors from all over surrounded me and her, and one by one,

I met another and another and another of the children

...plus one woman whose ex-boyfriend’s son (!) was one of the boys in the picture!

She took us all over AC’s back roads to find others.

It was an amazing experience...and one we will never forget.

If you ever need anything in Aguas Calientes, Peru, contact me: “I have people there!”