Entries Tagged as ‘peru’

26 October 2007

Gringo turns tables on Peruvian ambulant vendors

United States citizen tries to sell worthless and ugly things to Peruvian capitalists.
A special One Sorry Blog News Service report
La Raya, Perú – Without a doubt, Paul Rivas is not the first gringo to find the South American ambulant vendors exhausting, but he may be the first to spurn local color and insist on trying [...]

20 October 2007

two gringos skip machu picchu for choquequirao

In all my life, my family only ever took one (1) camping trip: a weekend – or was it just one night? – at Skofield Park with the Unitarian church, a good 15 minutes out of town and nigh on half an hour from our Goleta home. It was a lunatic’s adventure, to be sure. [...]

19 October 2007

the long walk

15 October 2007

elevation

Very strange things happen to your mind and body at high elevations. I know this because I am still digesting the giant plate of Peruvian cuy(guinea pig) that we ate for dinner last night, our most extravagant dinner since we have been on the road. I know this because I am having nervous breakdowns once [...]