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October 31, 2004Juanita the Ice MaidenAfter a long drive from Cusco, stopping at the deepest canyon in the world,Colca Canyon, which is about twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The purpose of our stop was to see the condors with the 3...Read this update October 29, 2004In the Jungle...No time to rest, I arrived back into Cusco around 7pm on tuesday night and had to do laundry and repack my bags for our next trip, into the Amazon Jungle! The Amazon is an enormous jungle that spreads across...Read this update October 27, 2004The Inca TrailOne of the highlights for most people who come to Peru, or even South America, is to do the four day hike to the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu. There were seven of us from the group that were...Read this update October 21, 2004The Islands of Lake TiticacaAfter crossing the border into Peru, our first stop would be the small port town of Puno. It would be our base for our trip onto Lake Titicaca and a few of its islands. Lake Titicaca is known as the...Read this update October 20, 2004A good wake up callIn the end, itīs probably a good thing that I had a near-mugging experience. I had been a little slack since leaving Africa, where I was wearing my money belt 24-7. Australia is safe for the most part, so I...Read this update October 16, 2004A better day in La PazViala and I met for breakfast at 10am in the hotel, I still had a headache, but I forced myself to get up if even just to get some water. After breakfast, we went walking around town again. We didnīt...Read this update Could it be worse?Itīs funny that I decided to name that previous entry "It could always be worse," because I thought to myself several times during my first day in La Paz, "Could this be worse?" Since I didnīt wake up until the...Read this update October 14, 2004Why did I take French in High School?There are almost 30 countries that speak spanish as their primary language and only a handful that speak french. So why did I take four years of french in high school? Who knows. In most places, especially in big cities,...Read this update ŋYo Quiero Taco Bell?After landing in Santiago in the early afternoon, I took a shuttle bus into town and checked into the Hotel Santa Lucia. It was a nice little hotel near the center of the city and for $32 per night, canīt...Read this update It could always be worseWhen I got to the Sydney Airport for my flight to Santiago, I went to the Quantas check in desk. I was suprised that there were only about 10 people in line, but that was good since the shuttle bus...Read this update October 12, 2004The longest day of my lifeI arrived in Sydney after the uneventful overnight train from Melbourne and checked back into the RG Hotel, where I stayed after my arrival from Africa two months ago. My only plans for the rest of my time here were...Read this update October 11, 2004GET RIGHT BACK!!After my day "at the office" catching up on blogging and looking up information on South America, I met up with my friend Steve for dinner. I met Steve in 1999 during my trip to Europe after graduating from U...Read this update Posted by msshell on October 11, 2004 08:53 PM
Category: October 06, 2004The Great Ocean Road to MelbourneThe Great Ocean Road was built in the 1930's as a memorial to World War I servicemen, and is about 400 kilometers long along the south west coast of Victoria. It seemed to me like Australias version of Highway 1...Read this update October 05, 200411:55am wednesday to 7:05am fridayConsidered one of "Australia's Great Train Journeys," Indian-Pacific is named as such because it starts in Perth (on the Indian Ocean) and ends in Sydney (on the Pacific Ocean). I took the train only to Adelaide, because I wanted to...Read this update |
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