Tour company makes good ....and where the heck are those altitude sickness drugs?

I jumped ahead a bit by posting photos of Machu Picchu.  I really should go back to the beginning.

After we hooked up with our tour company, they took good care of us -- paid for our hotel stay, comped our first two dinners to make up for our little misadventure in Lima.  You can't get batter customer service than that.  In case you're wondering, I booked the trip online through Traveland.com. Their incountry tour company was Peru Classic Tours.  Both were outstanding. I highly recommend them.

Machu Picchu was actually the last stop on the tour.  After hooking up with the tour group we were taken to our hotel in Cusco. We started by seeing ruins at the highest elevation of the trip in the Andes Mountains, Sacsayhuaman, at 14,000 feet, then worked our way back through Cusco, and its surroundings, before ending at Machu Picchu, a mere 8,000 feet. The idea is that by the time you get to the premier destination, you'll have acclimated to the altitude. Good thing for me that was the plan.

At Sacsayhuaman (pronounced Sexy Woman by tourists), I could barely finish walking the ruins. I was so dizzy and nauseaus, George had to help me get back to the van. Only an idiot would have left their altitude drugs in the hotel rather than bringing them along -- hmmmm -- what can I say?

Mountain 1,  Emma 0.  Better days are coming.