memorial day, 2003 peace, mi compadres, haven’t been home on memorial day in many years. last year, no longer solo… kuala lumpur: the gleaming petronas towers, looming brilliantly in the nefarious night sky, islamic capitalistic icons, the year after osama…
South America, 2003: chapter 2, hola de peru
june 13 , 2003 lima y cuzco, peru hola amigos, well, it’s taken over a week to get out of my insulated and fearful first world consciousness and into enough trouble and adventure to make it worth writing (and reading?) about. primero. first…
South America, 2003: chapter 3, los andes
(machu pichu — titicaca) june 20 “arequipa! arequipa!” “cuzco! cuzco!” it’s the sound from the bus terminals all over the cities of southern peru. announcing the incoming and outgoing metal beasts as they roll into and from the terminales. informing…
South America, 2003: chapter 4, swingin’ in the amazon
iquitos, peru white puffy, cotton candy cumulus clouds blowing over the muddy brown horizon. with portentous gray underbellies, promising or threatening, rain, depending on how you look at it. but rain it will be. at least a few times a…
South America, 2003: chapter 5, huacas and huaringas
Sildenafil citrate makes it sure that the blood is passed away properly to the penile organ that is to say, if such a large number of individuals swear by it, then obviously it must be exceptional. http://appalachianmagazine.com/page/78/ acquisition de…
South America, 2003: chapter 6, bienvenidos al ecua-dor
cuenca, ecuador july 9, 2003 “bienvenidos al ecuador” that’s what the huge, cranberry and gold banner says hanging over the road as we de-board the bus – and walk the no man’s land between the peruvian and ecuadorian borders. that’s…
South America, 2003: chapter 7, love and the devil’s nose
alausi, ecuador, july, 2003 que tal, mi compadres? we are bussing north from cuenca along l’avenida de los volcanos. so called for obvious reasons. between cuenca in the south of ecuador and quito in the north, all along the…
South America, 2003: chapter 8, baptism in banos
riobamba y banos, ecuador surprisingly – without more incident – we survive el nariz del diablo and bus our way to riobamba. yes, it’s true, an inordinate amount of towns end in “bamba” here in ecuador. i don’t think it’s…
Photos: South America, 2013: magical unreality, high above quito
quito, ecuador july 26, 2003 we’re bussing and bumping along. we know the routine by now. we’ve tried to shorten our distances. not bus for ten hours at a stretch. make more stops. banos. amato. latacunga. still on l’avenida de…