Hong Kong Part 1
Our first week in the East was a blur of friends, food and foreign sounds and smells. We came to Hong Kong, in Matt's words, for 21 meals. And we were amongst friends for every one of them. Thanks ... View Gallery »
The Rio Negro
August 3rd to 6th Matt, mom and I spent aboard the Amazon Clipper with 29 other passengers, cruising around the Río Negro.
The flooded edges of the Río Negro are filled with mysterious, ... View Gallery »
Um barco de cruzeiro para b...
Travel by boat is good, old-fashioned slow travel. So wonderfully slow you can listen to the boat making its way through the water, watch the ever-expanding and contracting wall of trees before you, ... View Gallery »
Up on high
This afternoon we set out to see the lookout tower - a 30m high steel jobbie with platforms every 10m and a ladder to climb up. We hoped it wouldn't be too bootleg or rickety. When we arrived, it was ... View Gallery »
A wall of green
At first it's an utterly overwhelming, continuous wall of green. But as your eyes grow accustomed to this pattern of vines and leaves you begin to uncover the world just under the veil... mostly ... View Gallery »
Reports from the jungle
We've been keeping ourselves busy getting sweaty and stung and stumbling around in the woods with our newfound friends of biology. Unfortunately, we are equipped with neither a close nor far lens. So ... View Gallery »
Land of the Incas
For three weeks we traveled in the footsteps of the Incas. For the first eight days we walked from the Incan "sister site" Choquequirao on to Machu Picchu itself, following the Vilcabamba range up its ... View Gallery »
Q'ewar, a social project
We spent one month in a small town east of Cusco volunteering with a social project, a small doll-making factory which provides jobs to the local women. It was founded on the premise that if you ... View Gallery »
Kid portraits of Q'ewar
Here's a preview of part of our portraits at Q'ewar. These are kids of some of the mothers at Q'ewar who come to the school (they call it a guarderia) in the afternoon along with their maestro, Nidia. ... View Gallery »
Up the cerro
We tried not to promote erosion too much when we traipsed up a gully in our backyard last week, up a cerro and across part of the ridge line behind Q'ewar. Only a slightly embarrassing 2000 ft accent ... View Gallery »