When last our story ended, Ryan, Jack and I had arrived at our hotel at 4am and fell asleep. We slept until noon and then took a long walk downhill. La Paz is a canyon. The Choqueyapu river flows through it but the river has been nearly completely built over so it is almost entirely underground… Continue reading Bolivia!
Category: Peru
Back in Peru
We’re back in Peru. A little of a let down after being in Chile for so long. No more clean places and such. The first day here was spent getting comfortable and helping Mother, Ryan and Jack to get ready to go to La Paz. The next couple of days were spent recouporating from our airport shanigan.… Continue reading Back in Peru
From Mark: Smoking
A while back I said in a post there were a few things I wanted to talk about before we left South America. One of them is smoking. I’m not a big fan of smoking. I know a lot of people that smoke. My Dad used to smoke. He quit a long time ago. My… Continue reading From Mark: Smoking
From Mark: Exit Strategy
There have been a few questions about how we are going to finish this trip we are on. Here is the background on the current plan and the best guess as what the future holds: The family has made it back to Lima, Peru. We sold the camper in Santiago, Chile. Michelle found a great… Continue reading From Mark: Exit Strategy
Relentlessly Forward
Like Farid said in a blog comment (and now my favorite quote): But overall this unrelenting capacity to go forward! Or, like Scuffy the Tugboat: there is only one way to go and that was with the rushing river On Friday, April 26, we sold the camper. The man who bought it did not have a… Continue reading Relentlessly Forward
Stressed – and NO ONE tell me it is desserts spelled backwards!
**Note that while I was typing this blog post, Mark texted me that he had hit a car! (advice from me: never text anyone that – just call). He backed into a car while leaving the vet. Very minor accident. The owners were yet to be located. I called our insurance company and they had never had… Continue reading Stressed – and NO ONE tell me it is desserts spelled backwards!
Santiago
Santiago is only a two hour drive from Valparaiso. We never know how its going to be, driving into a city of 5.4 million people. It turned out just fine, we arrived on a Sunday afternoon and found a great camping spot at a truck stop south of town. The truck stop was next to… Continue reading Santiago
Puno, we cannot leave you!
March 13 was the scheduled departure from Puno. The night before, we had a sad goodbye with the Grifo folks. Ryan helped them with an English lesson CD on their computer for awhile and we looked through our hard drive of music and listened to Whitney Houston and Madonna (their choice). We woke up early,… Continue reading Puno, we cannot leave you!
Puno Blog Post 2 – Jack
Yo, it’s Jack. Puno continues to be the same, old, lakeside, Peruvian, city that it ever was. I can’t really think of all that much new material to write about my life spent in Puno so I think I’m going to try to describe it a little bit. There’s this plaza called Plaza de Armes… Continue reading Puno Blog Post 2 – Jack
Puno, Peru — the last days
When we first began planning our trip in Fairbanks last winter, we thought about spending a month or three weeks in La Paz. Instead, we spent considerable time in Puno and we have all very much enjoyed living here. Mark, Sylvie, Annie, Max & I went to Del Buho for pizza and Jen, Jack &… Continue reading Puno, Peru — the last days