Back in San Salvador

The 20 hour bus ride wasn't too bad because the seats were really comfy so I slept a bit and watched a few movies and it went by quickly enough. I had been looking forward to the views, but we drove through the mountains at night so missed all the good stuff - just saw a lot of dusty desert, which wasn't much anything special.
After settling down in our original hostal in Lima that we had spent our first few nights at, we set off to go out for dinner with Ray, a guy I had met on the train from Macchu Picchu and who we had taken a taxi with back to Cusco. Tried to get a taxi but everyone kept trying to charge us wayyy more than we knew the ride was worth, so we turned down about four drivers before we finally found a reasonable one. The taxi ride was the craziest ride I've been on in Cusco, and that's saying a lot, because they are all crazy there. I'm so surprised we didn't get into an accident, I guess the drivers are pretty skilled at dodging each other and speeding in every which way. So we were trying to find a restaurant in Miraflores but the driver insisted that the street we were going to only existed in a nearby district, San Isidro, so he took us there, and the address was some sketchy old building. After asking a police officer, he found out the street we wanted actually did exist much crazy driving later, we finally arrived to dinner over an hour late. It was a fancy restaurant, but amazingggg food. We started with caprece-type thing and really good potato bread, and then I had garlic-y portabello mushrooms, I wish I knew how to flavor them so well. Yummm. For dessert, they let us try a fried plantain-and-stuff donut with honey and some really good caramel, and I ordered something that I have no idea what it was... I thought it would be a lemon merengue pie but it turned out to be some kind of tart-tasting caramel milk cream topped with lemon flavored merengue. really sweet but delicioussss. After dinner, went to a live music bar for a little bit, and the band was surprisingly really good and did a lot of covers of American music. Off to bed and up early in the morning for more traveling. Managed to get a taxi ride for 20 soles to the airport, which is really cheap - we were expecting them to say 40 and then bargain it down to 30. (1 dollar is about 3 soles). Line at airport check in was ridiculously long, but got through it with plenty of time to spare. Flew to San Salvador, five hour layover here, then flight back to SF, where I have a whole two days before the drive down to San Diego. What a month. Travel travel travel! :)