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There’s No Place Like Home

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Well, I’ve been back home for weeks and weeks–months now.  I’d meant to write a concluding blog shortly upon my return.  But I didn’t.  I got busy.  I backburnered it.   Time slipped away.  Finally, I write now.  So, just in case anyone ever deigns to check out this blog so long after the travels have ended, here is the…[drumroll]…FINAL ENTRY.  [read on]

Jungle Fever

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Call me narrow-minded, but I draw the line at cross-species relationships.  The creature I encountered in the Amazon jungle clearly did not.  [read on]

Part Time Lava

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
What I saw outside the bus window looked disturbingly familiar:  rocks and boulders and mud piled on the windy road´s edge at the base of fresh erosion scars in the mountain.  The driver had to steer wide to avoid the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Here´s Mud In Your Calle

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
A traditional Ecuadoran meal served by waiters in bowties: $3.50. A clean hotel room in the city center, with private bathroom and cable TV, breakfast included: $9.00. Being the only gringo among 49 non-English speaking strangers ... [Continue reading this entry]

Ruined (pics added)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
When I last wrote, I was in a little beach town in the north of Peru called Huanchaco.  I´m now in another little beach town, further north, called Mancora.  Between the two, I was ¨ruined.¨ Let me explain.  Dotting the landscape ... [Continue reading this entry]

Three Days of the Condor

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I did not eat condor for three days.  But I did visit their soaring grounds:  Cañon del Colca.  Canon del Colca and another canyon near it, Canon del Cotahuasi, are both over twice as deep as our own Grand Canyon.  ... [Continue reading this entry]

Science!

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Guinea-pig.jpg        I´ve never been much of a "science person," preferring instead the worlds of social studies and liberal arts. But I do know some things scientific.  I know that matter comes in three forms:  solids, ... [Continue reading this entry]

In and Around the Lake

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Yes, ´round about 4:00 in the afternoon of Tuesday, January 29, I arrived by bus in Puno from Cuzco, Peru.  Daniel and Perry had left on Sunday and I spent two extra nights in Cuzco alone.  ... [Continue reading this entry]

Machu Machu Men

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
SSCN5939.JPG  ¿Quien es mas macho?  (WARNING:  This entry is insanely long.  Not for the faint of heart.) I awoke this morning to the earplug-muffled sounds of honking horns and yelling voices and car alarms emanating from the narrow ... [Continue reading this entry]