Sparkle Obscura: Cart

Location: Ayacucho, Peru Date Taken: June 8, 2009

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Sparkle Obscura: Landscape

Location: Cusco, Peru Date Taken: March 16, 2009

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Project Paint: Still at it. Rocking the Peacock Blue.

We made a lot of progress over the weekend, but came no where close to finishing, as I’d hoped would happen! The scope crept a little more… we ripped out the built in shelves in our closet. It required some major spackling after that! Yay! We’re going to replace the old shelving with some Elfa [...]

G is for GPS Perú

We, okay Scott, carried around a Garmin GPS on our various travels through Perú over the last 6 months. I just got around to uploading the tracks into Google Earth to take a look. Here are some of my favorites:

Unfortunately, I didn’t have the GPS with Mary and Lisa on Lake Titicaca! Bummer.
By the way, [...]

O is for Overplayed Bareto

 
I will never, ever be able to get this song out of my head, ever. Bareto is Peru’s most famous band. And this was their most popular song during our time there.
The song was even played on Cruz del Sur promotional videos. This is not a good song to hear just before trying to [...]

This is Peru (or TIP).

Saying “T.I.P.” or “This is Peru” has been a coping mechanism of ours for the strange situations we’ve come across in the last 6 months. We got the idea from my sister, who served in the Peace Corp in Botswana and used the phrase “TIA” or “This is Africa” for the same reason. (Actually, [...]

Smooth Peru Departure, Bumpy En Route, Rough Quito Arrival, No Freak Outs

Smooth Peru Departure
We hired a travel agent to escort us across the Peru/Ecuador border. I wouldn’t have normally gone to this extreme of handholding, but (a) we’ve had issues at borders in the past and (b) I was not officially stamped into Perú because my initial passport was stolen. I had my new passport and [...]