Lima

Going to visit San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru is a trip that began with my grandmother's pulperia (store) with the saint's name. There was a raffle where she prayed to him to help her. Her prayer came true and with those raffle winnings she started the store with which she would end up putting my mom through medical school!












San Martin's symbol is the broom since as an illegitimate child of mixed race he could not be a monk at the monastery where he cleaned and worked as the nurse!

Even an agnostic like me could not help loving San Martin!

Here I am fulfilling a promise my grandma made so many years ago! How lucky can a guy be?

Matt is angry at Pizarro. Even hundreds of years after his death...










You know you are not in the U.S.A. when the animal tied to the post is a llama!











For Matt and I, Lima was just a place to fulfill a promise and catch flights home.  Hung, went to the Peruvian Amazon rain forest from Cuzco.  We all know that guy is hard core!