An epic bus and train journey through Peru from far north to far south, featuring deserts, mountains, weddings, markets, buried towns and dodgy digs. Vamanos!

Written, read and recorded by James Whiley. 

Other cool podcast tech stuff done by Rod Morri at Sydney Podcast Studios. 

See www.sydneypodcaststudios.com.au if you want to make your own.

You can see some photos that accompany these stories at the We’re Only Here Once instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/jamesw_woho/

The texts of the stories are at www.jameswhiley.com

Big thanks and love to my family and friends for their support.

All ‘We’re Only Here Once’ music written by James Whiley and performed by James Whiley and the Nomads, who are: 

Anton Harris – drums; Lindsay Jenkins – bass; Quentin Cooper – mandolin; Tama Taita – lead guitar; Josh Kronfeld and Midge Marsden – harmonica; Ainslie Laverty – keyboards; John Thomasson – flute, trombone and scat singing; Nic Leedon – lead and rhythm guitars; Tony Stephens – saxophone; Nigel Jenkins – recording engineer; James Whiley – songs, singing, rhythm and lead guitars.

In this episode’s theme-tune, Written on a train, Quentin Cooper plays the mandolin he found for five bucks in an antique shop and re-fretted with a penknife on our living room floor overlooking Dunedin. Great times.