Hey guys....so now we are only about 3 weeks behind on our blog....yikes. Lots of catching up to do. We last left off saying we were heading back to Santiago (en route through Uspallata) to watch field hockey and buy another painting that Maya had her eye on. This was on the 4th of March.... yes the 4th.... making us three weeks behind on the blog. We left Mendoza on the 4th to spend one night camping in a small town/valley called Uspallata. The valley its...

Wow...it has been a long time since our last blog. Sorry everyone! Time is just flying by it seems. Our last week has been a bit more relaxed than the frantic overnight bussing we were doing before, however. That said, we are currently waiting by the bus terminal for an overnight bus to Mendoza, Argentina, which leaves at 10:00pm, crosses the border sometime around 2 or 3am and arrives in Mendoza at 4:30am. (We are also in a delimma of whether or not to retu...

Hi Everyone, Hope you are all doing well. When you last heard from us, we were trying to find a way out of Arequipa (because of the agricultural strike). We were finally successful that night, and our overnight bus to Tacna made it safely to its destination at 3:00am. But before we talk about the absurd amount of hours we have spent on buses lately, we will tell you a bit about Arequipa and Canyon Country. Arequipa is called the white city because of the vol...

It is about 4:00 pm on Sunday in Arequipa. We are sitting at an internet cafe in the bus terminal waiting for our 1:00 am bus to take us to Cabanaconde where we are hoping to see the second largest canyon in the world (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon) and the worlds largest bird (the Condor, which has a wing span of 3.5 meters). We were hoping to catch a bus this afternoon (the town is 5 hours away), but even with 5 bus companies running the same route, all o...

Hello everyone. It is 5:05 pm our time on a rainy Saturday in Arequipa, Peru. (We are drenched from the waist down, as drainage is poor and we have been splashed by passing cars numerous times.) We arrived here at 7:30 this morning after a low budget overnight 12 hour bus journey from Ica. As we have only been in the city for a few hours, we will use this blog to write about our experiences in Pisco. We first arrived in Pisco a week ago today coming from Lim...