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      • The Urubamba Paradoxx
        07/30/07
        I have created a link on the right panel to a hilarious article that Nick wrote about Urubamba and Peru in general. Funny stuff!

      • Independence day
        07/29/07
        What a crazy weekend.

        Aaron and I had been planning on going to Cusco for sometime and what better time to go to one of Peru´s largest cities than the Peruvian independence day!

        As it turned out the kids, extended family and friends were also planning to go to Cusco for the da

      • Gringo quiz night and Independence day
        07/26/07
        So last night Aaron and I hosted a Quiz show at the Muse here in Urubamba.

        Last week we played in a quiz game at the Muse and won it! This meant that we had to setup this weeks quiz game.

        There were a ton of people last night and everyone love our questions. We had 8 categorie

      • More Pictures!
        07/23/07
        Pictures from Pisac, Machu Picchu part 2, and Mount Putukusi are now up!

        enjoy!

      • Machu Picchu, Wyanu Picchu, and Putukusi
        07/22/07
        Just when I thought it couldn´t get any better....

        So, Thursday night Aaron and I met up with Aaron´s good friend from the states and decided to be their guide to Machu Picchu (since Aaron and I are now experts on the Incan City!!).

        There was some worry about getting tickets fo

      • interesting....
        07/17/07
        So last night I had a long talk with Nick, his good friend Chris and Maria del Carmen about the new Train Service they are about to open up.

        They asked me if I would like to help setup the accounting software here in the Urubamba valley and help design the program which will post the acco

      • Back From Machu Picchu
        07/14/07
        Absolutely incredible. Machu Picchu is overwhelming.

        Our journey started with a most random rendezvous with my good friends Robert and Chris Dekay. Aaron and I just happened to be walking down one of the main streets in Urubamba (the one that all of the buses travel by) and all of a sudde

      • Machu Picchu!!!
        07/12/07
        Robert and Chris just got into Urubamba tonight! We met randomly on the main street.

        Robert: "Hey gingos!"

        Me: "...holy shit!"

        Leaving for Ollantaytambo tonight.....heading up to Machu Picchu tomorrow morning.

        This is why I cam to this

      • Pictures!
        07/12/07
        Pictures are finally up!

        Check it out.

        The Andean goose is my favorite animal of all time.

      • Protest!!!!
        07/11/07
        Protesters EVERYWHERE!!

        Not only have most of the teachers in this country gone on protest, now all of the construction, transportation, and public workers have too!

        Aron (thats how its really spelled) and I walked up the Urubamba main road and highway just to check things out.

      • done with first lessons!
        07/10/07
        Well I have finally been able to test my awesome tutoring skills on both kids as of this morning. Now that I have a feel for teaching highschoolers, I think everything is going to fall into place nicely.

        So, Erin and I went out last night and found the two main gringo hangouts in Urubamba

      • Tutoring Tomorrow
        07/08/07
        Well I am finally going to start teaching tomorrow. Erin and I will be tutoring each kid for two hours monday through friday. He will be doing the chemistry and I will be doing the math. We will both be teaching physics.

        I think i'm going to grow my beard back.

        I keep hea

      • Now i'm in Urubamba
        07/07/07
        Well after a nice flight to Cusco international via Lan Air (by far the best flight of the trip), I took a small, smoking taxi to the central bus station in Cusco from which buses left for Urubamba. No one at all spoke any english. They simply noticed all of the crap I had on my back and knew exactl

      • Finally in LIMA!!
        07/07/07
        After a long delay on the tarmac due to weathe in shreveport, I finally began my journey to Lima at about 1200pm. The flight took a little over 2 hours because according to the captain we had to avoud the wrath of God (we took a northerly route around the weather).

        Atlanta airport was bus

      • Itenerary-update
        07/05/07
        So I have decided to spend the night in the airport on the 6th and catch a flight out on the 7th at 500am. This will be slightly more painful but a good deal simpler.

      • Itenerary
        07/03/07
        I will be leaving Shreveport on the 6th of July at 11:18am from Shreveport Regional Airport. I will be flying into Atlanta and then flying directly to Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima. I should get into Lima at about 11:59pm. There is no time change from US central standard to the local ti

      • first
        07/02/07
        So this is the blog on which everything i do in peru can be read!

        This means i can be lazy with my emails.