We are excited to welcome eleven wonderful and well-prepared people from TLC this evening. All thirteen of us began preparing for this Holy Week trip by meeting monthly, starting last September. The eleven arriving tonight continued meeting when we left for our sabbatical in January. It's amazing how quickly time has passed! We will see and experience many things, but our first stop tomorrow will be at Cristo Rey Lutheran and then Achkiy, the fairtrade organ...

"The more you see the less you know The less you find out as you go I knew much more then than I do now" (U2) We're learning a lot as we've arrived in the big city, but still have a lot more to learn. For example, how do you cross the road in Lima? No chickens involved here. I googled "crossing the street in Lima" and came across a hilarious and insightful blog entitled, "4 Tips for Surviving Street Crossings in Lima" by Roving Reporter Eric Ludy. The ti...

Through which lens do you see the world? As we continue to travel we meet wonderful people, see amazing beauty in God's creation and slowly become more tired. I suppose it is inevitable that after spending so much time away from family, friends, a comfortable bed, and our dog :) the novelty of exotic locations is not as "exciting" as it used to be. Last evening we took an overnight bus (Cruz del Sur) from Arequipa to Nazca. The 10 hour trip left us gro...

Greetings from somewhere in between Cusco and Puno, Peru! We had a minor delay in our departure from Cusco because Paul spent a night in a local clinic this past week. He was diagnosed with an intestinal infection and they treated him with antibiotics intravenously. He's doing much better now! Our time in Cusco was well spent--meeting new friends and fellow travelers from California, Colorado, Texas, Canada, Australia, Denmark, and of course, Peru. We each comp...

I have the distinct memory of myself as a six-year-old, trying to learn the folk tune "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" on my violin. It wasn't pretty. Besides the scratchiness of my tone, I was so frustrated with the bowing pattern that I began to cry. I was never going to master the violin, let alone learn this song! Nearly thirty years later, I realize that perseverance pays off, but it doesn't make it any easier for a beginner in Spanish at my age. I feel like I should b...