More Colca-ing

Day: 371 As I said in the last post, I am currently exhausted as I write both these posts at the same time. To make my extremely hard life (sarcasm), harder, I have a bus into the driest desert on the planet (in northern Chile) tomorrow morning with the sunrise. You picture hungry people out [...]

Coca Leaves; Colca Valley

Day: 370 Colca Valley is the worlds deepest canyon, even more so than the Grand Canyon, unfortunately after spending two days getting on and off the uber-touristy tourist bus non-stop, I am not really up to writing much. Needless to say, to have such a vast canyon you need great altitudes (upwards of 5000 meters), [...]

Back to School

Day: 347 My alarm beeped off at 8 am this morning and I jumped out of bed with the exuberance of a child at an all you can eat ice cream buffet.  The sun was streaming in our second story window overlooking the street, and the day looked spectacular.  Yet, for some reason Felicia didn’t [...]

Vomit – Rain – Protesting

Day: 346 Somewhere over Central America I open my eyes, blinded by the bright morning sun. The Singaporean in the window seat next to me has that, ghost white-hands clenched-holding down the vomit look on her face; the look you never really want to see on a fellow passenger at 35,000 feet. I glance at [...]

Hectic Days

The Day Before Tomorrow: My life in the last 7 days has become busier than any other point in the past 2 years.  I have shot 2 weddings and attended another, been to Big Bear and the beaches, spent hours upon hours at my computer editing and building a new webpage, spent countless evenings showing [...]