Ephemerica

Which means that it’s time to post pictures from Peru.

Filed under: Peru on November 14th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Just ran across this NY Times article talking about the bike culture and industry springing up in Portland. Maybe there will be a place in it for us when we return? Or maybe we can steal some ideas and bring them to Seattle…

Filed under: General on November 6th, 2007 | No Comments »

Our time in and around Cusco is nearly at an end. Cusco is probably the most magnificent colonial city we’ve seen so far on our journey. Of course, the history of the city goes back well before the colonial era, as evidenced by the remnants of astonishingly constructed stone walls throughout the center of the city. [...]

Filed under: Peru on November 4th, 2007 | No Comments »

Enjoy.

Filed under: Ecuador on November 1st, 2007 | No Comments »

Finally, the photos have arrived! Go check them out in the photo gallery.

Filed under: Costa Rica on October 15th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Our time spent in Quito waiting for Cindy’s pannier to be constructed was pretty uneventful. save for a few tourist activities we got in. We spent a day on the bus going north of Quito to Otavalo, a cute little town in the mountains that has a large craft market. The bus ride was pretty [...]

Filed under: Ecuador, Movies on October 7th, 2007 | No Comments »

The whole time we’ve been in Ecuador, we’ve been seeing political advertisements for an upcoming election, which just occurred on 30 Sept. We weren’t really sure what it was about until we saw this article at CNN.com. It is an election to create a Constitutional Assembly to create a new constitution for Ecuador. Apparently, it [...]

Filed under: Ecuador on October 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Just wanted to let people know that I changed our filter that keeps spam out of the comments. I doubt anyone has noticed, but one of our posts in particular (the last installment of cat blogging) was attracting spam comments, which I was then deleting (unless anybody needs more information about Cialis?). The little pictures [...]

Filed under: General on September 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

OK, the rants first. I can’t remember if I mentioned before here that I’ve been reading the Harry Potter books in Spanish. I whipped through the last half of the third book last weekend so that we could ship it home with the rest of the little trinkets we were sending. Since then I’ve gone [...]

Filed under: Ecuador on September 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Everybody we talked to and everything we read before we decided to go to the Galapagos Islands told us the same thing: you will spend an obscene amount of money and it will be worth every penny. It was truly an amazing experience for the both of us. Originally, our plan had been to meet up [...]

Filed under: Ecuador, Movies on September 19th, 2007 | No Comments »