Great day in Lima. Began with a run along the pacific ocean. It was foggy and cool.. as it’s been all day. The run was on a cliff loaded with public art, joggers and dogs.

 

snuck a samstone into the window fo the old lighthouse overlooking the pacific

then up to the room for a quic shower before meeting Carlos for breakfast

From there we drove to Conytec , the Peruvian council for science and technology. The leader Walter is really a visionary. We had a great conversation about the power of open data. I’m hoping we can help them engage the community here..

From there we visited IBM.. then grabbed a delicious lunch at a seafood fusion place

from there, carlos and I drove to Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria for a talk to a small and appreciative crowd. I was really impressed with both he students and faculty. One of the professors told me about their recent launch of a ‘cubessat’ homebrew satellite called Chasqui I. . They gave it to a Russian cosmonaut who threw it from the russian space station into orbit. jst 3 days ago. You can read about it here . How cool is that ?

from there it was an hour long drive back to the hotel ..

after a short rest, we all gatherd together and went to a Chifa place down on the beach. Chifa is a special kind of Chinese food that th e Peruvians love..   it was good.. very much like our version of Chinese food but preuvianer

now its very late and I need to sleep.. More later..

nite all, nite sam

-me