Day: 402 My sides felt like I spent last night in a boxing match, I was sure my kidneys were bleeding, my stomach was a cement mixer, and my mouth was dry and crusted with spittle, as I cracked my eyes after managing 2 hours of sleep. I glanced at my digital watch; 4:30am. We [...]
Day: 401 At 11pm last night it started raining, and it wasn’t a little shower, we’re talking about a deluge and it didn’t let up even when we woke at 6pm to go check on our plane which was supposed to leave in an hour and a half back to La Paz. The unfortunate part [...]
Day: 400 So, 400 travel days have passed in the last couple of years and I am still here, much to my own surprise. I remember back in February of 2006, Mom foresaw it would last “a couple of weeks then you’ll get bored of it and we’ll hardly ever hear from you.” Unfortunately for [...]
Day: 399 The days here on the steamy shores of the Amazon are drifting in and out of similarity, unable to seem to know where to land. It rains, the sun blazes and we constantly lounge around in hammocks loving life. Quite a nice break if I dont say so.
Day: 398 Our days are pretty simple, eating and relaxing, trying to avoid the worst of the days heat in the shade, then eating again. We manage to rally the energy to buy plane tickets for 3 days from now, when we´ll be leaving the Amazon basin and heading up to lake Titicaca, which makes [...]
Day: 397 It rained most of the day and we are still wasting lots of time together. We did manage to get Felicia´s visa extended (mine is for 90 days, here was 30), so we don´t have to rush out of Bolivia.
Day: 396 After our Amazon adventure, we realized we were exhausted from traveling and have decided to stay put for a while here in Runnenabaque for a few reasons: the aforementioned exhaustion, its cheap, and we still have a couple weeks until we meet Ed in Cusco and there is only a couple of other [...]
Day: 395 After a morning of making assorted jewelry out of forest nuts and branches (I swear its like summercamp here), we hike the 2 kilometers back to the river and boarded the boat, with the utmost caution of the quicksand, to head back upriver for 4 hours to return back to Rurre for the [...]
Day: 394 To answer your questions (Grandpa), yes we do have repellent. Actually we have three types, REI Jungle Juice, and aerosol can of OFF, and a 30 DEET Cutter Glue stick type thing. We also have mosquito coils constantly burning in our lodge and sleep under mosquito nets. Everytime we go out we apply [...]
Day: 393 We walked through the endless jungle looking for animals, assorted plants and sweating the combined equivalent of 3 gallons of water. It might just have been me but the furry tree anteaters seemed to be cooler than my poor Southern Californian ass… Anyhow, we did manage to see all sorts of jungle creatures, and even [...]
