Distance since departure - 17,754 km
Distance travelled today - 464 km
Stayed - Nazca Hostel ( 15 Peruvian Soles or just over $5)
Weather - mist or smog, it is hard to tell

The coast is dull.  The ride is boring.  We knew it before the day began.

We started to approach Nazca with some optimism of seeing something special.  The Nazca lines are a "must see" in Peru.  I am not sure they are worth going up in an airplane to see some interesting cartoon characters but what we could see from a roadside tower convinced us to save our money and buy some booze. 

If you did something big in 600BC in the art world it did not have to be that spectacular.  Maybe the interesting thing here is that they were catering to someone that could fly way back when.  And flight as we know it did not exist for a couple thousand years.

Oh well, not to rain on their parade... we only saw a couple of the pictographs from roadside at the cost of $0.35 and that was enough for us.  I also understand that everyone pukes who goes for the plane ride as they toss from port to starboard so everyone can see.  I gave it a miss.  We are on our way to Machu Pichu.