Jenny and I will be writing a co-blog about our Peruvian Expeditions at http://pikatrails.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!
Monday, April 28, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
The great Peruvian Expedition (Beta*)
*"Beta" either from computer programming meaning “in design mode” or from climbing meaning ”information about a route".
For those of you who have inquiring minds and would like to know the detailed itenarary for my and Jenny’s trip to Peru, this is not an ideal location. If you want a rough sketch of our trip, you are at the right spot.
We will begin on April 19 in the year of 2008. Our first flight will be with the MN born NWA airlines and will be taking us to Miami for an evening of relaxation. Now no South American adventure would be complete without a visit to Columbia and their fine airfields. We will be landing and departing Bogota without incident, no matter what anyone tries to say or do otherwise. Then we will continue on to Lime, Peru. From what I know about Lima, it is like Seattle without the pop culure and a lot of homeless people. Lima is wet and grey and surrounded by a giant shantie town. People often wonder why they are in Peru when they see Lima. We will spend a day in Lima and then will head off to Cuzco.
Cuzco was the center of the Incan Empire, and no matter what people say about the Spanish being evil for killing the Incans, just remember the Incans killed all the people there well before the Spanish came. We will then head out on the Incan Trail for a 4 day trek to Machu Pichu. The difference between trekking and backpacking is that trekking is what rich tourists do, when they have porters and pack animals carry all their gear. Machu Pichu is one of the most famous ancient ruins in the world and is beautifully perched atop the Andes. It is delicately speckled with thousands of tourists at any given point in time. We will then spend the night at the base of the ruins in a somewhat posh hotel before taking a train back to Cuzco the next day.
At this point the trip gets murky and dream like. I kinda remember going to Lake Titicaca, a huge lake high in the mountains. I believe people live on floating islands of reads with tiny read huts on the lake. I also think there was something to do with the deepest canyon on land on the planet earth. Was there something with rock climbing or rafting??? Man it’s just not clear to me. Wait, I think we went surfing somewhere.
Who knows?
When it all cleared up we are a week later and sitting in Lima again. Ahhhh, get out of Lima! Book a flight to the Amazon to stay safe. Spend 2 weeks in the Amazon looking for Tarzan. We will be staying at a place with cool treehouse type huts and lots of free tours and educational experiences. The place is famous for its Amazon survival course and jenny really wants to hunt down some poison arrow frogs. I think a monkey will steal my hat. I would like to camp out in the middle of the rain forest for some alone time in death’s grip. Ok we had our fun now back to Lima.
Somewhere along the way someone said something to us about some sort of thing that we should definitely do if we have the time. So now we are going to do that for a week.
Hop a plane from Peru to Bogota, run though airport in 65 minutes and hop a plane to the US. Get deloused by customs and spend 2 days relaxing in Miami by the pool.
Fly home June 2 of the year 2008.
For those of you who have inquiring minds and would like to know the detailed itenarary for my and Jenny’s trip to Peru, this is not an ideal location. If you want a rough sketch of our trip, you are at the right spot.
We will begin on April 19 in the year of 2008. Our first flight will be with the MN born NWA airlines and will be taking us to Miami for an evening of relaxation. Now no South American adventure would be complete without a visit to Columbia and their fine airfields. We will be landing and departing Bogota without incident, no matter what anyone tries to say or do otherwise. Then we will continue on to Lime, Peru. From what I know about Lima, it is like Seattle without the pop culure and a lot of homeless people. Lima is wet and grey and surrounded by a giant shantie town. People often wonder why they are in Peru when they see Lima. We will spend a day in Lima and then will head off to Cuzco.
Cuzco was the center of the Incan Empire, and no matter what people say about the Spanish being evil for killing the Incans, just remember the Incans killed all the people there well before the Spanish came. We will then head out on the Incan Trail for a 4 day trek to Machu Pichu. The difference between trekking and backpacking is that trekking is what rich tourists do, when they have porters and pack animals carry all their gear. Machu Pichu is one of the most famous ancient ruins in the world and is beautifully perched atop the Andes. It is delicately speckled with thousands of tourists at any given point in time. We will then spend the night at the base of the ruins in a somewhat posh hotel before taking a train back to Cuzco the next day.
At this point the trip gets murky and dream like. I kinda remember going to Lake Titicaca, a huge lake high in the mountains. I believe people live on floating islands of reads with tiny read huts on the lake. I also think there was something to do with the deepest canyon on land on the planet earth. Was there something with rock climbing or rafting??? Man it’s just not clear to me. Wait, I think we went surfing somewhere.
Who knows?
When it all cleared up we are a week later and sitting in Lima again. Ahhhh, get out of Lima! Book a flight to the Amazon to stay safe. Spend 2 weeks in the Amazon looking for Tarzan. We will be staying at a place with cool treehouse type huts and lots of free tours and educational experiences. The place is famous for its Amazon survival course and jenny really wants to hunt down some poison arrow frogs. I think a monkey will steal my hat. I would like to camp out in the middle of the rain forest for some alone time in death’s grip. Ok we had our fun now back to Lima.
Somewhere along the way someone said something to us about some sort of thing that we should definitely do if we have the time. So now we are going to do that for a week.
Hop a plane from Peru to Bogota, run though airport in 65 minutes and hop a plane to the US. Get deloused by customs and spend 2 days relaxing in Miami by the pool.
Fly home June 2 of the year 2008.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
The Rise and Fall of Exhilaration
So I haven’t written much in a while, so why not type a little update?
First off, congrats to dD for getting into pilot school. Good luck in boot camp.
I’ve been estimating that my life will be in some state of ecstasy or turmoil from March 20, 2008 to December 25, 2008. This could be way off, but who knows.
The basic outline thus far goes a little something like this:
March 20: Find out where we are moving (Salt Lake City)
March 21: Pack
March 22: Move stuff into storage in Rochester, MN
March 24: Hand in letter of resignation
March 24 to March 31: live on airmattress in empty abode.
March 31 – April 17: live with Dan and Kate (bro/sis-in-law)
March 24 – April 18: Determine living arrangement in SLC. Sell my car ): Send puppy to Rochester for 2 months.
April 19 – June 2: Travel around Peru. Exploring the Andes, Machu Pichu, the amazon, the coast, and Lake Titicaca to name a few.
June3 – June ?: Drive out to SLC and live in hotel. Look for a job and maybe a house and maybe a mode of transportation.
June ? – June ?+4: Go whitewater rafting with Jenny and all the other interns
July – December 25: Start a job, buy a house, buy a puppy?, buy a mode of transportation, start digging out of student loans, work on house, have friends visit mountains, teach jenny to like falling down snowy mountains, enjoy the view, and go Christmas shopping (:
“Through pleasure and pain, I embrace the unknown.” – me, just now 4/1/08
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