Robert is spending five days in Peru. He’s staying in the Lima, in the Miraflores neighborhood, which is a collection of high-rise apartment buildings, hotels and shopping centers on a sea-cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He had not been in Lima for over ten years. The Miraflores area was beginning to be built out then, but it is now very packed with Marriots and Tony Roma’s, Starbucks, Radio Shacks and Chili’s. All very “tastfully” done. He’s sure that the rest of Peru, the Andes, smaller cities and the rest of Lima are not as changed. Perhaps he’ll go to Arequipa this weekend. While in Lima he is staying at the large ocean-view apartment of his friends the Cardenases.