http://blogs.bootsnall.com/anna-d Rants, raves, and letters home from an American girl gone South. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:28:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Road of Death I had one day to kill in La Paz. One day, the only break I'd have in the middle of another cross-continental, muscle-sapping, backside-numbing bus ride. I needed to be outside. I needed butt in gear, body in motion. I got off the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/anna-d/episode-4-life-death-and-starbucks.html March, 2006  Last autumn I spent part an afternoon rolling down a grassy hill with my 3- and 5-year-old neices in Green Bay. I think it was their first time, and they loved it, so we took turns, over and over again pushing eachother at the top, arms tucked in close ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/anna-d/episode-3-tumbling-south.html February 15-28, 2006 Colca Canyon: Llamas in the road, llamas in the hills, llamas on my plate. Manuel, owner of the Hostal Astorga, set me up with a tour of the Colca Canyon--a quick 2 days of tromping in and around the world´s 2nd-largest canyon (both on foot, and and in a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/anna-d/episode-2-hola-peru.html 5-14 february, 2006 Angels and Demons, Miami International Airport Well, the trip got off to a bit of a disastrous start when snowstorms in Chicago kept me from making my flight to Peru.  Actually, let me rephrase and more accurately say that LAN Peru, those devils, kept me from making my flight to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/anna-d/episode-1-arrival.html family, friends, and distinguished web guests, welcome to my first-ever blog, an online travelogue that will serve as a substitute for inbox-clogging mass emails while i´m abroad.  follow my trail as i make my way from peru to patagonia and back again (and who knows?), view the random photos i snap ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/anna-d/hello-world.html