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  • 2009
    • July
      • The Lost Saga
        07/21/09
        So I was digging around in my enormous hard drive and stumbled upon some great pictures of my adventures in Easter Europe circa 2005/2006.

        I basically jumped on a plane back in '05 the weekend that bitch Katrina decided to roll into the gulf. It was totally planned.

        The

    • May
      • Eastern Europe Pictures
        05/10/09
        Here are some pictures from my latest trip.

        We flew into Prague spent two nights in the city. Hopped on a train to Vienna and spent two nights and three-ish days in the city. And for the finale we trained it over to Budapest two nights and three days.

        I split the pictures up by

    • January
      • Greetings from Éire!
        01/15/09
        Well here it is, the first edition of Brothers Reed - with J this time!

        To get things started, I'll give a little background information on what is the story with my "unique" education.

        I am currently working on my undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. State

      • Spain #1 is FINALLY UP along with LONDON ADVENTURES
        01/12/09
        This has taken waaay too long! I will be adding descriptions when I have more time!



  • 2008
    • August
      • Wow Its been awhile.
        08/23/08
        So this is first post I have made to the site in for some time now.

        Quite a bit has happened since my last post. I am now living in North Beach at an amazing apartment on Russian Hill (lower). I am living with two great roommates one of which is an Architect for KMD and the other works a

    • February
      • I got a job in San Francisco!
        02/17/08
        I have finally made it to San Francisco to take a job with Verticals OnDemand. This company implements the force.com platform for biopharma companies all over the country.

        I am eager to start and get a place to live in the bay area!

  • 2007
    • December
      • Common Ground Community
        12/17/07
        I have had the most amazing several months since my return from Peru. I have become apart of the Common Ground Community organization and have been working with kids tutoring math and science.

        These are some of the most intelligent people I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
    • September
      • Fixed the family link AND more pictures
        09/27/07
        I fixed the broken link to the family shots.

        I also realized that I haven't posted the pictures from the trek to the glacier. I gonna start working on that.

      • Pictures are FINALLY up!!
        09/26/07
        All of the pictures from the last part of my trip are now up! It was no easy task!

        The links may be found in the 'Pictures' category. The new links start with 'The Whole Family'.

        Enjoy!

      • I need to get out of this town!
        09/11/07
        I am now back in Shreveport LA and looking for a job.

        I want to be back in Peru!

        I have to figure out what kind have content to put on this blog from now on.

        The last few pictures from my trip will be up tomorrow.

    • August
      • Arequipa and Colca Canyon
        08/30/07
        It has been one long week. I am currently stuck in Lima International airport for another 11.5 hours (already been here for about 6) and have plenty of time to update the blog.

        So I took an overnight bus to Arequipa last Saturday night at about 800pm. The trip took almost 10hours getting

      • Nick has sued the minister of transportation!
        08/22/07
        Andean Railways Corps has officially sued the minister of transportation for entry into the passenger train market!

        Nick and Maria's pictures and statements are all over the newspapers here--the whole train project is now in the public eye. Apparently public sentiment is in favor of

      • Hiking to the glaciers (well we almost made it!)
        08/21/07
        Aaron and I have been talking about this hike since the first week we were here in Urubamba. Now that it has finally come down to Aaron's last weekend, we were definitely going to do it.

        Nick had also been telling us to do this hike for a long time.

        Our plan was to meet Ke

      • Volunteering in Cusco
        08/21/07
        Last Friday, Aaron and I met some friends for a couple of beers and check out more of the night life in Cusco.

        The night was great. We went to the same Irish pub that we've been to many times (Paddy's) and to some of the same bars as last time (and a couple of new ones). It was

      • Pictures are now up
        08/17/07
        Finally all of the pictures from the past week are up! Enjoy.

      • Calca
        08/16/07
        Yesterday we traveled to Calca to see their celebration for the Virgin Mary. I think that every small town in the sacred valley (at least) as one day of the year on which they celebrate the patron saint of their main church. So far all I have seen are the celebrations in Yucay, Pisac, and recently

      • Lake Titicaca
        08/16/07
        Every trip that I have taken here in Peru has been a blast. This one is no different! I have a lot to write about this trip so I am going to divide this post up according to the islands and towns we visited.

        ---Bus ride and Puno---

        Our trip started after catching the 8am bus to

      • Sexywoman
        08/16/07
        Aaron and I played this entire weekend trip by ear as we have most of our trips here in Peru. We knew that we wanted to see the Sacsahuman ruins (pronounced 'Sexywoman') with our tourist ticket and we also knew that we wanted to go to Puno and see the lake. We had already bought the ticket

      • Pisac
        08/16/07
        As time is now running out for this trip, Aaron and I have begun to take several day trips to some of the great ruins in the valley. We wanted to make good use of our tourist tickets and traveled to Pisac last Wednesday.

        The ruins in Pisac were great! These ruins rival Machu Picchu!

      • Earthquake and updates
        08/16/07
        A massive earthquake hit northern Peru last night registering somehwere between a 7.5 and an 8 on the Richter scale. Here in Urubamba we didn't feel anything. According to CNN, Lima had power outages and 85 casulties 15 of which were fatal.

        I am going to now post updates to the blog!

      • Pictures are now up!
        08/07/07
        Pictures from last weekend are now up!

        I have changed the layout of the site a little. All the picture links will now appear in the 'Pictures' category on the right panel. Pretty complicated, right?

      • Next weekend: Lake Titicaca
        08/06/07
        Today after tutoring Tany (the correct spelling--I was yelled at!) we took the bus into Cusco to check the prices of plane tickets to Lima (for my departing flight) and to get bus tickets to Puno (the main city on lake Titicaca).

        It was a long day of walking all over Cusco. The brand new

      • Moray and tekking through the high plains
        08/06/07
        Our plans changed slightly for this past sunday the morning of. Nick was very instant that Aaron and I not miss the festivities that were taking place at Moray.

        A celebration from what I could tell was called Pachamama took place in the old Incan ruins at Moray. Nick said that Pachamama w

      • Ollantaytambo
        08/06/07
        This pas weekend was very busy.

        We planned on going to Ollantaytambo on Saturday and then to the Pisac ruins and market on Sunday.

        Saturday we got up reasonably early and caught a combi to Ollantaytambo at about 1030am. The ride was uneventful and very crowded. Of course every

      • I may have found my true calling......
        08/06/07
        It has been a while since my last post. I have been quite busy.

        Wednesday last week I had a great oportunity to make a difference in a small rural school here in the Sacred Valley. Will has been volunteering at a small school in the town of Urquillos (about 10min east of Urubamba off of t

    • July
      • 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.