"Instead of welcoming the New Year in a joyful mood, a heaviness hung over the house that couldn't be dispelled. While outside, the neighbors launched rockets into the sky, we sat quietly together and reminisced about our memories of my father-in-law."
On December 10, our next adventure began: a 20-hour overnight bus ride to Piura, my wife's hometown. The journey from Lima to Piura (Peru) is long - longer than a prison sentence for shoplifting and almost as unpleasant as a root canal without anesthesia. But we had opted for a comfortable coach with reclining seats, which meant we could sleep - in theory.
