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We’ve had an amazing early morning roaming around this
ancient jewel and it’s time to earn lunch! Up up up we hike
overlooking Machu Picchu.
Waynapicchu, one of the closest mountains
Incans have paved the way with
a treacherous stairway, yet there is a happy trail of visitors from all over the world who puff out encouragement in [...]
It’s 4:45am and we are on our way to Machu Picchu!
Our third day is no less breathtaking than the rest – and we’re all happy to be singing and walking our way down to lower altitudes!
Once we reach the highest pass through the valley we get the adrenaline rush of sliding / skiing down almost 1,000 feet of loose soil/rock you see us standing on [...]
This incredible hike brings us up to 15,600 feet or so and through communities that surely haven’t changed in decades. Our guide counsels us to give bread and school supplies to the children and families we see along the way and we pass farmers using hand plows designed in Incan times – almost something out [...]
Sadly B41 has just left Tarija. This post is a shout out to them: Julia Milne (Chicago, Il), Emelia Hurley (Reston, Va), Winston Harrell (South Boston, Va), Steve Cooper (upstate NY), and Shelby Tracy (Texas). They have mostly lived to the south of Tarija city and collectively have worked on projects including: teaching English, building [...]
Thanks to my favorite aunt Betty Jo the teachers of my English club, my head nun (Sister Mery), and a few Nunnettes learned all about coloring Easter eggs and Easter egg hunts in general.
While in Tarija Bernie & Army were nice enough to throw us a costume party complete with fabulous food and an obstacle course!!
This fall my brother Armstrong (Army) and my father Bernie traveled all the way to Tarija to meet the newest guy in my life: Asterix!
Once upon a very very sunny day I was headed out to Elke and Arend’s farm when the small bus I was riding on died. Being only 5 miles from the farm I decided to walk, and along the way I happened upon a public works project to build a drainage system along this main [...]
As our service continues, Christian is still trying to put on weight before his mother comes down and worries too much, Steve is still rooting for Shockey every game even if he has to read about the results days after each game . . . Sarah is looking forward to heading home to Chicago for Christmas . [...]
There have been a cascade of birthday parties lately, and I’d like you all to be prepared for the next Bolivian social function that you attend!
How was your thanksgiving? We Tarija volunteers would have invited you to our river celebration, but we were desperate not to run out of turkey this year!
Marathons . . . 26.2 miles . . . 42 kilometers they’re rather funny things – and at the outset the whole idea seems pretty crazy doesn’t it?
Meet team Tarija: Winston “Big Guns” Harrell, Sarah “Esther” Anderson, and myself, SC.
Translation – what a rush ! Have you ever tried it? Boy do you feel powerful . . . errrr, I mean, helpful . . . no, really!
I recently had the chance to visit an orphanage down in Bermejo, Tarija. Bermejo is the Southernmost town in Bolivia – just a few minutes and a river separates Bermejo and Argentina.
Hola, otra vez de Bolivia !
We are living in the 21st Century, and most of us are used to flying from one place to another. Perhaps we’ve recently become accustomed to griping about security lines, clear plastic bags, checking all liquids, almost every kind of delay – and who knows what the future will bring [...]
While most of our friends in North America are busy adjusting their air conditioners and car stereos a few of us down south are remembering the nostalgic days of summer when there was actually water around here.
I’m sorry about the delay in posting these pictures – they were taken during the August 6th celebration of Bolivian Independence day!
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The Nuns of Santa Isabella are truly amazing. They run a soup kitchen, a vocational school, an adult school, and a boarding house / orphanage all on the same small plot of land ! One of the most important components of their service is their steadfast commitment to the soup kitchen that feeds young children from the community [...]
We Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) might like to think we’re all qualified to do whatever it is our communities ask of us– but it won’t come as a surprise to most of you that underwater basket weaving and plenty of games of Beirut or *Beer Pong* during college did not exactly prepare us for every rigorous eventuality in the developing [...]
Every day is a great day for a celebration – and what more worthy cause to celebrate than the dedication of teachers?
Strangely enough, peanuts are abundant here in Tarija, and so I hear, around most of Bolivia. Even the poorest of the poor families who live way out in the ‘campo’ (Spanish for the boonies) either grow peanuts or can easily and cheaply attain them. Unfortunately, most folks are at a loss as to what to [...]
A long long way from Canada . . .Someone had enough of a sense of humor to bring me to my first rodeo !! There’s a saying down here that all true ‘gauchos’ are born on horseback . . . once you get a chance to see these Argentines riding you might just start to [...]
Hola todos !!,
I know how you´ve all been pining away wishing you could send a few text messages down south - below please find the directions !!
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