August 9, 2018 – August 12, 2018
We drove south along the sandy desert of the northern Peru coast. It was desolate, dreary and depressing. The small towns we drove through were littered with garbage, as was the countryside. We saw people hanging their wet laundry outside of their adobe brick homes, just meters from the highway, and wondered how it could ever be clean when it was dry, because of all the dust in the air.