What is up, good steemitizens?
There's been a lot going on in my world for the past couple of weeks...
I went to SteemFiesta in Lima, Peru, for a week, and I celebrated the first anniversary of YouAreHOPE on October 16th, and I turned 50 myself, on the 17th. So lot's has been going on!
Here's some pictures of me, still being 49 for those last few days, along with some other steemian faces you may recognize along the way, as we gathered last week in Lima.
I rented a sweet 11th floor 2 bedroom apartment near the beach and spent a lot of time with 
I travel light - this is clothes, cameras, (multiple) tripods, solar panels as a gift for an attendee who requested two of them from the states where they are cheaper, a full office of audio/laptop gear, mics, headphones, android tablet, etc:
It was a pretty nice place to wake up:
I am not the only guy that gets up early to get shit done either:
And that means getting some universally available mocha flavored fuel - I know, I HATE paying for starbucks coffee too, and rarely do, but when I travel, well, it's predictable, and always takes my card. sigh ... always:
Part of the city is being restored in a gentrified historic kind of way. The roads now suck as a result of historical accuracy.:
The beach is pretty epic though:
The local mall, LarCoMar, was on the cliffs on multiple open air levels, and was simply awesome, and full of american shops like RipCurl, and Columbia, and Nike, and Adidas.. :
We ate here a couple times, a place I discovered in my taxi from the airport passing it, and which the locals didn't seem to know about yet, but loved. We went several times. It has a full bar, of pisco drinks, and such, and great warm pecan pie and ice cream. @Fyrstikken likes the chocolate milkshakes:
Then back to the apartment in evening, and after that, the week blurs by with site seeing, shopping, fine dining, and more. Business and such, you know. Steem stuff. From here on out, I'll just roll film:
Things happen fast:
Reassuring sign below my balcony:
Respect our smart tv and fast internet:
Our neighborhood was Miraflores, the city let you know when you found it - also outside our balcony:
More Arnolds:
Pisco sours, rule!
Then there was El Hornero Steak House:
And the nightclub in the easily 100+ year old mansion:
Oh nothing, just me and all the local steemian chicas at a hot Peruvian nightclub :)
We got our shirts at the nightclub:
Oh yeah, here's what the mall looked like from beside it:
We went out for pizza and beer on the night of the Peru vs Chile' football (soccer) game...
It was kind of a big deal and Peru won, so the streets went nuts:
Steemitizens meet the morning sun as apartment inhabitants begin to waken:
And off we went to the site of a Liman and Incan pyramid excavation in Miraflores, right in the city!
A little more time at the mall, killing time till my flight:
It was time to blow this popsicle stand, and in fact, they have a popsicle stand!
But first, down to the beach to burn one preflight:
And finally at the airport, time to go home:
Lima was incredible! I'll be back!
Thanks for travelling there with me in this post!
See you next year in Lima!
@SirCork
Team member, @NobleWitness
Founder @YouAreHOPE Foundation