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
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
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
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
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
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