I suppose I should also note that on November 10, 2007, Cindy and I became aunt and uncle to this little guy:
Braden Christopher Fisher is his name, and he’s surely the only kid on his block wearing booties from Guatemala (guess who sent him those!). We’re looking forward to making his acquaintance when we return.
Posted by Matthew on December 31st, 2007 | Filed under: General | 1 Comment »
Here is a picture of our favorite kitty, enjoying the holiday season. And even though her mom and dad spent a couple of nights sleeping with another kitten at Ramon’s house in Salta, it was just a meaningless fling…
Posted by Matthew on December 31st, 2007 | Filed under: Cat Blogging | No Comments »
This is just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We made it to Salta, Argentina in time to celebrate Christmas with Ramon and his family at their casa de cicistas. We will write more about our ride to Salta and time here later, but wanted to give you a Christmas […]
Posted by cindy on December 28th, 2007 | Filed under: Bolivia | No Comments »
Potosi, the world’s highest city (of its size-100,000) at 12907 ft / 3934 m is famous mostly for mining in the nearby mountain, Cerro Rico. The abundant silver was drained by the Spanish using indigenous people and as well as imported slaves to do the work. Now, people still mine in cooperative groups looking for […]
Posted by cindy on December 18th, 2007 | Filed under: Bolivia | 3 Comments »
We got back from our Salar de Uyuni trip a couple of days ago (it was great—more on that later), and we’re hanging out in Uyuni for a few days while Cindy recovers from a small illness. So with nothing else to do but hang out, I decided to write up a review of our […]
Posted by Matthew on December 9th, 2007 | Filed under: General, Bolivia | 1 Comment »
Since the War on Drugs in the US very clearly involves a lot of the countries we’ve traveled through, I thought I’d post this Rolling Stone piece, which details the history of the War on Drugs, calling itself “an anatomy of a failure”. Seems about right to me…
Posted by Matthew on December 4th, 2007 | Filed under: General | No Comments »