A poncho is REQUIRED for the cold of Huacora! |
Tocosh de Mazzamora (aka 6 month old potatoes!) |
Anyway—the ride to Huanaco was quite a blur to me because a side effect of Dramamine is sleeping in a hibernative state where you honestly have no idea what is going on around you. I can say that I woke up at one point and the bus was wicked hot because we were driving through an area where it was the middle of summer. I woke up at another point and it was SNOWING outside, which is something I didn’t expect to find this close to the equator. Something super strange about Peru is that the mountains here throw off all the seasons. For example, it’s summer in Huanaco right now but its winter in Callao. Weird, huh?
Katrina and I with the Community of Christ sign in Huanaco. |
We spent most of the day with Virgilio’s brother, Antonio.
Antonio was an amazing host, making us coffee with a little sock-like tool I’d
never seen before, picante de cuy (aka guinea pig) and tocosh de
mazzamora
(tocosh is six month old potatoes). While these things might not sound
desirable, I’ve been hearing about them for a long time now and I was ready to
finally give them a try. So, the reviews? Coffee: great. Cuy: I’m reserving
judgment. Katrina loved it, but for some reason I had a hard time not envisioning
a little guinea pig running around. I can tell that it would have a nice flavor
if you didn’t know what you were eating. Tocosh: good. Now, I must tell
you—mazzamora is a desert, loaded with sugar and cinnamon. Katrina has tried
tocosh in its more traditional form and she said it was a truly dreadful
experience. So I’m not sitting here endorsing tocosh, but I am saying what I’ve
tried of it has been pretty good—though the potato texture is a little odd.
After our morning in Huacora we cleaned up and met with
Orlando’s family and the Huanaco congregation to chat about our role in
Huanaco. This has been a bit of an interesting conversation, because we haven’t
fully decided how long we’ll be in Huanaco, what we’ll be doing there, and,
frankly, if there’s even a desire for us to be there. From what I could tell,
the conversation went fairly well and it looks like we’ll be spending a few
months there.
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