Day 15 Chulucanas to Bushcamp near Motupe

So before the days story more about the Police in Peru.  It seems that Bike Dreams had sent details of our trip through Peru to the Peruvian Embassy, mainly because there are some small areas of Peru that it is useful for the police to be aware of our prescence.  So there is often a police car along the road whose occupants wave and check us through as we pass.  Then in many of the smaller towns they blow their whistles and stop traffic, or if there are a number of us in a group we are often treated to a police car escort with lights on, siren blazing, and all the vehicles kept to one side as we "race" through!  It has been really great so far, makes you feel that your in the Tour de France!!  They also count us all in to make sure we are all safely home at the end of a day, it will be interesting to see if it does last all the way through Peru.
So, this day started a bit cooler than the last ones but as we are dropping slowly down towards the coast the terrain was still fairly flat and boring.  There were two small climbs today, and we did pass through a few foothills just to break it up, but here was still the nagging headwind!  So nothing really interesting happened on the journey to our first bushcamp.  We should have been in  an hotel but it was found out that it was full, so a bushcamp was found, only about 7K short of Motupe, on a less than green or flat football pitch about 500 metres from the road.  We had ridden 147K with just over 500 metres of climbing.  We all had our dinner at about 6 pm which was really good for the first wild cooking experience of the trip.  A few chats and bed about 9 pm, after keeping my diary up to date.

Mine is the Green Tent!