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A tale of two nights

Two nights, split only by the sun between them.  One spent in the campo, the countryside, the other  in Oropesa, a town just south of Cusco, Perú.  Two nights that couldn’t have been more different if they’d been separated by a million years…one a night of peace and solitude, the other of frustration and bad feelings.
I was . . . → Read More: A tale of two nights

leaving the altiplano…and some random thoughts

From the Northern reachs of Argentina up to Southern Perú, I’ve been walking atop a giant plateau, the squishing together of two opposing tectonic plates…the Altiplano (high plain, or high flatlands). 

Its average altitude is almost 12,000 feet high, sometimes topping out at well over 15,000 feet.  In the dry winter months it is a brutal landscape . . . → Read More: leaving the altiplano…and some random thoughts