February 2011
11 posts
So What Are You Doing Now?
A lovely picture taken last weekend at Mollie and Rob’s wedding. Thanks Kat!
I’ve only been back for five minutes and every person I’ve talked to has asked, “so what are you doing next?” Being back in the North-west is obviously working it’s magic, as I’ve already gotten rat-arsed at the Marrawah hall and perfected my bogan twang. I can hit back with...
"Home is Wherever I'm With Youse" *
* Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
After a crazy busy few days, I’m finally back home in Marrawah! And oh, what a welcome home! Just look at the sign Dad made me. I always wondered where my arty streak came from…
I’ve been dreading this post a little bit. How do I encapsulate all the feelings swimming around in my brain? Home, after ten months travelling the...
Machu Picchu and Eating a Guinea Pig - Things You...
Where is that damned list? I knew I put it here somewhere…ah! There it is! Go to Machu Picchu. *TICK* Maths wasn’t my favourite at school, but I still think I was strong enough in the subject to recognise a dodgy equitation. Effort = reward is a common example of mathematics I like to apply to real life but in the case of Machu Picchu…sorry, no banana. I’m glad I went up...
Greetings and Good Luck From Copacabana!
Dear Ma,
We are spending a couple of days in Copacabana to go to Isla del Sol (where the Incas came from, apparently) and then will head into Peru. Little did we know it was festival time! There are so many pilgrims in town, pouring champagne on their decorated vehicles for luck in the coming year. You have to watch out for the Bolivians sloshing some beer on the ground for luck before tipping...
It's a Potosi!
Potosí was kind of a given destination for Those Travelling with Geologist™. One word: silver. And lots of it. As legend has it, a farmer looking for his lost llama lit a fire on the red hill one chilly evening (Potosi is at around 4000m above sea level - brrrrr!) and molten silver ran out from under the coals. Ned got really frustrated every time this story was mentioned - apparently silver has...
Bum Shots Are The New Jump Shots
Train graveyard, Uyuni.
Thanks to Mesa and Tyler and their new-moon inspiring ways, travel jump shots are no more. Looking to jazz up any landscape? They say to put a cheek in.
Bottoms are the new black - you heard it here first. So what are you waiting for? Pull your finger out already and get a wiggle on!
“Bum shot!”
The Only Gringoes in Tourist Town
We decided to make Tilcara another sleep-over due to it’s handy in-between altitude (getting prepped for 5000m in Bolvia!) and said-to-be nice setting. It’s very close to Purmamarca, home of Cerro de los Siete Colores, Hill of Seven Colours. There is only a paragraph of information in Lonely Planet so we assumed it wouldn’t be too overrun with tourists. It seemed that most on...
Take it With a Pinch of Salta
After 22 hours on a bus, we would have been happy to get off at anywhere. How nice that anywhere turned out to be Salta! A gorgeous town filled to the brim with colonial style architecture - and I’m actually in the mood to appreciate them seeing it has been a while since Europe. My gag-reflex isn’t so easily triggered by churches since we’ve had a little rest!
Things work...
