Well, I finally caught up on my website. It is actually the 16th of Dec. and I am in Lima Peru. I will be here for the next three weeks or so taking spanish and volunteering at the South American Explorers, an organization that I am a member of. I have found a good place to stay with hot water, a private room, and breakfast for $9 a night. I like it. For Chirstmas, I met a South African who lives here in Lima. He invited me to his place, so I'll go and ...

Had an increadible 10 or so days here in Peru. First, I went to the city of Arequipa and on the way I played BINGO on the bus. They play and the winner gets free return fare or something like that. Very funny. I didn't win, but I practiced my spanish numbers and was three numbers off. After I got into town I booked a tour to the Colca canyon, the deepest canyon in the world. The tour picked me up at 1:30am from my hotel and took us by local bus to the c...

I took the 24 hour bus from Guayoquil to Lima yestarday and today. Wow, what a long ride. I also didn't realize that the entire Peruvian coastline was desert. The whole thing. It is bone dry all the way from the Peru, Ecuador border to Santiago in Chile more or less. I have never seen anything quite like it. I am planning on doing a typical tourish loup in the south of Peru. I'll keep you posted as to where I am and what I am doing.

After a total of about seven weeks in Ecuador I am on the road again. I have certainly had a good time here, learned a lot of Spanish, a little bit of Salsa, and met a lot of really cool people who, of course, you can never get to know as well as you would like to. A few highlights of the rest of my time in Ecuador are: -Took a bike trip to Mount Cotopaxi, which consisted of being driven to the base of the mountain and riding a bike downhill. It was g...

Writing this after a great weekend, but I'll tell you a little bit about life in Quito. During classes, which are going very well, I went with my instructor to the Ecuator. There is the official site, with a big monument and complex. The whole thing is very touristy and kinda stuffy, but you gotta go there, just to say that you have been. Right next door, however, is the mom and pop specially. Their claim to faim is that they say that the official markin...