Cusco
The city who's name in Quechua, means 'navel of the world'. It was the capital of the Inca Empire and so I'm excited to be going there. As we fly in from Arequipa the colour of the ground has been...
Travels
Workshop Two
More knitting ... but that is what I so thoroughly enjoy doing so why not? Actually when we arrived back in Arequipa from the Colca Canyon, it was just like returning home after a holiday. Very weird...
Colca Canyon
Manuel is our guide for this three day trip from Arequipa to Colca Canyon and back again. He says he learned his English watching HBO and some of what he says is very funny as usually the context is a...
Workshop One
Starting day 6 is our first workshop. Rufina and Inez are my first teachers. They are wonderful ladies who have an extraordinary amount of patience for our clumsy attempts at learning to knit...
Arequipa
Both Jean and I have managed to catch colds ... drats!!! Neither of us will stop though, just pass the kleenex and lets get on the bus or plane or whatever. Actually the flight to Arequipa is pleasant...
Lima
A city of 8 million people ... way too big to really comprehend. Our flights here are uneventful though not particularily comfortable. We are met by Eduardo and wisked off to Villa Molina where we settle...
The day before the big day
Most everything is done and I'm amazed that it is only one more sleep before Jean and I leave for Peru. How exciting. I've a busy day ahead but most of it is fun stuff. My dear friend Carol gave me an...
A wonderful rafting trip on the Alsek River, Yukon
When Pat sent an email looking for interest in a trip he was planning, we had no idea it would be such glorious scenery, the folks so congenial, nor the good fun it was! We could go into a very long...
The end, or Wrapping it up
If you are here and new to this trip I just want to let you know it is entirely in reverse!!! Friends have asked what was our favourite thing on the trip and we mostly answer that this country of...
Home
Lawrie left for a caribou hunt up the Dempster Highway, (not too far from the Arctic Circle) on Saturday. I stayed at home and moved the trailer stuff to the house and moved house stuff from room to room...
Onward ho
We didn't ever establish a method of telling you who was writing, is this a mistake we should fix now? No. You just have to guess! This morning, after another soak in the hot springs, and what we hope is...