Ica in eight hours

I was a completely free man at one o´clock today, so I pondered what to do over a $1 lunch of soup and chicken dish. Hmm, I thought, this chicken is kinda orange...maybe i´ll buy some shoes. But first I remembered this museum I read about so I was like VAMOS TAXIMAN! I burnt an hour in the Museo Regional de Ica (founded by Alfondo Bermudez Jenkins), checking out some wicked mummies and textiles. It´s funny when you can actually grasp how incredible it is to have a 3,000 year-old mummy sitting in a case in front of you. As a kid being dragged into these places, all I would think is Gee, that´s a dry-looking head. Anyways, they have all these morphed skulls and wigs and evidence of trepanning, which is basically prehistoric brain surgery with rocks. Gnarly!!

What kind of ancient culture has silly designs like this? That would be the Wari, whose ruins I also visited much earlier in Ayacucho.I know what you´re thinking -c´mon, I saw that in IKEA´s fall collection, 2004. That couldn´t have been woven thousands of years ago by some tribesman in a hut. Shya.

Stinkin hippies, can´t even go to a museum without seeing one.

Coneheads. How do they DO that?

So that was actually the best museum I´ve been to in a while, and afterwards I was definitely in a shoe buying mood. I´ve needed something in between my big hiking boots and my flimsy sandals, and I found some cool basic Walon sneakers at a store in the market in my size. Buying new shoes is cross-cultural fun! So then I walked around, bought some socks, and I don´t really know where the time went, I guess I´ve been at this internet joint a while. I´m pretty anxious to get to Ayacucho and have a little fun at the orphanage again. So I´ll catch you foolios on the flipside!

Yours truly, unimpressed with a loud and stinky Ica.