Thanks JoAnn for the kudos (premature now tho), and Cindy for the be safe well wishes.

Ida finally took time to watch the "stairs of death" video last nite. Immediately, she told me you are going to change our Huanya Picchu hike, no way am I (and you) doing the Huayna Picchu hike.

She emphasized loudly to me, "We want to be healthy before boarding the Mariner in Lima Wes"; so (after coordinating with Kuoda Travel) now we are doing the Sun Gate hike on day 4 of our Machu Picchu adventure. Pls see:

http://theonlyperuguide.com/peru-guide/machu-picchu/additional-hikes/sun-gate-inti-punku/

Look forward to sailing for the first time with Incas/longtime KLTrs that we have known only digitally for over ten+ years on this forum.

Thanks to Ngaire for accepting my Incas posts tho we are not Incas--and thanks to Marc for including us in the roll call.