Monthly Archives: June 2006

Unwelcome Oasis

Two days down we roll into, or walk I guess, the last and most disappointing campsite of the trek… Well, I suppose elaborate is more descriptive.  Beautiful views as normal, but this camp had a lodge, showers and more surprisingly … Continue reading Continue reading

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Revisiting reservations

See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to *hold* the reservation and that’s really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them. Well, after the booking problems with … Continue reading Continue reading

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We will, we will rock you.

Did everything look like a puma to the Incas? So the word on the streets is that the lake and the whole area around it were named titikaka because of the Puma (titi) shaped rock (kaka) on Isla del Sol … Continue reading Continue reading

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At the Copa

Two Copacabana’s down, no girl with yellow flowers in her hair.  But a nice sunset over lake titikaka from the Bolivian side. Continue reading

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The red carpet treatment.

Not very often I fly into an airport an have them roll out the red carpet, literally… justified i suppose but the brass band was over the top and lining the airport with armed military personnel is just unnervinging… Ok … Continue reading Continue reading

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Tango Etiquette

Note to self: when someone asks you to tango you say yes!! It’s weds night, I’m 3 lessons into my week o tango and Steve and I head to a tango social or milonga.  We enter and are seated.  Unlike … Continue reading Continue reading

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