Category Archives: Peru

Rainy days in Maldonado

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Pam

Tom really doesn’t like to get wet.  (Back a hundred years ago when we were in college, he was the only kid on campus crossing the quad with an umbrella.) Nonetheless, we persevered in the Peruvian Amazon. The first day, … Continue reading →

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Shrouded by Mist

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Pam

The Chang-Robbinses have joined us! And — taking a break from her ceaseless toil over in the Emerald Isle — Emma has joined us as well! The logistics (all sponsored by Joyce’s frequent flier miles — THANK YOU, Joyce) were … Continue reading →

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What Adventure Travel Means, Part IV

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Pam

Tom and I have been parenting for going on twenty years now, and any one of the kids would confirm that we’ve made plenty of mistakes along the way.  (Emma was in fact moved a few years ago to write … Continue reading →

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Coulda been a Boracay Moment

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Pam

Decades ago, Tom and I stumbled, through a sequence of individually small but cumulatively quite ill-advised decisions, into an eminently avoidable and potentially very dangerous situation.  Luckily, and thanks solely to a handful of perplexed but very kind Filipinos, we … Continue reading →

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Incan Agricultural Extension Station

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Pam

As part of our ongoing efforts to work our way up to Machu Pichu, we visited Moray, billed in Fodor’s as “a very strange place.” Archaeologists are actually not sure what its purpose was.  We’ve already learned enough about Incan … Continue reading →

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Andean Express

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Pam

Okay, so the train from Lake Titicaca to Cusco is four times as expensive as the perfectly safe and comfortable tourist bus, and the bus is actually a little bit faster. Go for the train. Around eight thirty they served … Continue reading →

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It’s as if they float…

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Pam

(Oy… we’ve been so wifi constrained for so long that I’m feeling totally overwhelmed by the Tremendous Backlog… and I’m afraid I only have a few hours here before I go into transit-incommunicado again… I’m trying, I’m trying…) The Uros … Continue reading →

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Taquile Island

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Pam

I generally know better than to romanticize the “simplicity of life” in rural areas of developing countries.  But Taquile, an island in Lake Titicaca near the Bolivian border, in which 2,200 people run a collective society based on ancient Incan … Continue reading →

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Better than Facebook Status…

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Pam

In and around Puno, they have, over the centuries, worked out an even more nuanced system of signalling availability and mood. Each district or island has its own distinctive headgear.  There are different hats, depending on whether you’re married or … Continue reading →

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!!

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Pam

I’m still working off a Tremendous Backlog now that we finally have a reasonable wifi connection, but… I didn’t want my mother to worry that St. Patrick’s Day went unmarked. First of all, Emma, along with Joyce, Dave, Matthew and … Continue reading →

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