Time to take a break from applying ointment to Gael for awhile. More on that later. We managed to exit the USA on the 29th Sept, two days before our visa’s were due to expire, so we have left the door open to return, if we choose, to by getting out on time, although there can be complications in obtaining a new visa. We will miss all the camping in National Forests and on BLM land. So much free to access public land in the States. It dwarfs Australia in ...

Arequipa – Colca Canyon – Titicaca – Cusco - Lima Who would have thought Sth America again, but Qantas had different ideas if we didn't want to sacrifice our tickets. You see the world is divided into continents, and no matter what your booking agent tells you, don’t believe them, they will not change your tickets between continents. You will get no sympathy from Australia’s true blue carrier. *******s! Anyway a chance to visit M...

It was indeed fortunate for me that Gaels persistance found a hospital that would admit me, conduct tests and treat me. Up until this stage we had been told I had travellers diarhea and that it would eventually clear up. These small clinics on the highways do a great job, but they can't carry out adequate testing. If I had just let it run its course I hate to think what the outcome would have been. After being released from hospital with an arm full of assorted ...

Colombia Day here today. But nothing to celebrate from our/my end though. Since heading south from the Carribean Coast I have had some unwelcome travelling companions with me, well more to the point, in me. You see, I have picked up some Amoebic friends that have, and still are lunching on my intestine. This they do very well. So well in fact that I have been hospitalized for various amounts of time at different truckstop clinics on no less than three separate oc...