Hey! I haven't undated in about a month, sorry kids. Lots has happened, but I only have 23 minutes to write right now, so I will write more in a day or two. So, my friend Caitlin finally made it into Santiago after oodles of delays in New York and Miami, and we settled in to have a nice christmas in the Domingo Savio hogar (after school care place) in the La Granja (literally "the Farm") neighborhood of Santiago. It was great and relaxing for Caitlin I...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OK, so I am in Santiago, staying in a converted orphanage/after school cae program with a friend (of a friend) Matt Crip. I am going to be here in Santiago for about a week (a week, in one place!!! yay!!!) getting stuff ready for the next leg of the adventure, when another friend from Alaska comes down and we bike the Carretera Austral in southern chile for three weeks. It feels great to finally be here, and I guess I should finish off with t...

Heyyyyyyyy there. Well, I have 17 minutes to tell you about my last couple of days! After I left Oruru I biked really really hard for a day and made it to the twon of... Chuquicara.... I think... I wasnted to go as far as I could to that town because it was where the pavement south ended. The next I started on the supposedly "two lane dirt road", or at least that is what my map said. The road was oing to be two lanes... eventually. It was under constr...

OK, not much time to write. And no pictures, not for about two more weeks. sorry. SO, I stayed in Cusco Peru one more day after I last wrote doing lots of errands, such as going to the police, because my wallet got pickpocketed. Great. BUT I still have my passport, the ability to get money, and its all fine. Very irritating, but not the end of the world. Ugh. BUT because I spent a few more days in Peru it made it necessary to take a bus from Cusco to Puno, on ...

Yeah Machu Picchu!!!!... and I have done many other things since the last blog post. The picture attached to this post isn't mine, but Iwas there and have oodles of pictures exactly like it and will post them eventually. I was planning on having thanksgiving in Pisco Peru, with the organization Hands On Disaster Response, and organization that I helped for about a week. I got there on the Wednesday before, realizing that if I really wanted to see Machu Picchu a...