#StuckinPeru Day Seven:
We continue to remain in lockdown, which is probably about the same as most folks in the US, just with military enforcement. I personally haven't gone out since last Monday, but Reuben's been able to go to the nearby minimarkets as long as he wears a mask and gloves. I stay back in case he gets arrested and I can help him get out...but that's not a real real concern... just a precaution...we're laying low!
As you can see, we still have plenty of fresh food (Reuben makes us omelettes every morning!) and we still feel very fortunate for the little sky lights we have in our apartment for some sun! Everytime I stand up, I do 100 jumping jacks and 30 wall pushups to release the stircrazies.
Our neighbor is an expat from Montana who locked herself in 3 weeks ago and has been a delightful source of socially distant news, as well as maker of homemade chia seed bread and peanut aji hummus that she shared with us.
The US has started to fly folks home from Lima. The word now is that they are trying to find local airlines who can fly to Cusco (where we are). The altitude (11,000 feet) makes it impossible for US planes and pilots to get in. An unsavory alternative is to for the government to charter a 22 hour bus over the Andes for us...but we'll know more in the coming days.
At this point, we aren't rushing at those (very expensive) government flights home. There are about 1000+ Americans in Cusco, most with much greater needs to return (healthcare workers, children, the sick). Things in the US seem pretty bleak from our perspective here and we're not sure exposing ourselves to the virus on long buses, flights, and/or layovers in airports makes the most sense.
Stay tuned! I've mentally committed to getting back to our backed up vlogs and blogs this week :).
