On our third day in Lima, our friend, Paul Gonzales moved to a new hostal. We skated over to meet him, but as it turns out, Google Maps is not quite so accurate in Peru as it is at home. It pretty much sent us in completely the opposite direction. So after skating around for over an hour searching for a hostal that did not exist, we found a tiny little skatepark that was half under construction.
And with this discovery, Google's mistake turned into the best thing that happened to us so far on this trip. While sitting on a corner trying to figure out what to do, two locals skated over and asked us (in pretty bad English) if we'd like to go skating with them. We said sure. So we followed them to their house, only to find a crew of about 8 skateboarders who all turned out to be the friendliest group of guys we could possibly meet. Despite the language barrier (only 2 of them knew English at all) they pretty much adopted us into their crew, and took us everywhere for 4 days straight. We got to see stuff and go places that I'm sure foreigners who spent 2 months in Lima would never see. Pretty much the best possible mistake that ever could have happened.
Here's one other park the guys took us to.
It's much closer to central Lima. It's pretty fun, but very very busy. Garrett was getting followed around by hoards of kids. It was a good time.
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