Wednesday, December 06, 2006

clever blog entry title here

Hey team.
So Annie and I are in Popayan, Colombia; a relatively short bus ride away from Ecuador. We have in mind to cross that border in the next week here before some supposed road-blocks go up due to some kind of strikes that are rumored to occur. We have heard that the border town of Ipales is like most border towns, dusty and ugly, so we don´t want to be stuck there for a few weeks waiting for buses to run again. In all likelihood, it´s just a crazy rumor. We just wanted to let you know how we are... which is good. We stayed three days in San Agustin, some 7 hours by insane dirt road from here and some 12 hours from Bogota (where we spent nearly a week) This little ville was set at the edge of an absolutely heart-stopping huge gorge with multiple waterfalls. It was like a long and electrically green Yosemite. The area was dotted with plenty of pre-colombian indigenous archaeological sites with carved statues of crazy looking demons and various other fantastic creatures meant to scare people away from tombs. We took a day long jeep tour with some quiet Colombians to archaeological sites and waterfalls and did some of our own walking in farmland to more sites and overlooks the next day.
Great pictures!; of which I must tell all of you, may be prohibitively difficult to post. It takes forever to upload photos at the internet cafes available, and we need to somehow reduce their size to post anyway and we have no software for it. We´ll see... Anyway, we miss all of you and we´ve been thinking and talking about each of you consistently. We think we may be in Peru for Christmas so, you know, if anyone wants to hike Macchu Pichu for Navidid, email us-- we´ll meet up with you. Love you all--
Wish we could have seen the Slip with you Katie! good band.

1 comment:

amy said...

ay! pictures of your nieces and fam on Dan's blog and mine. you can get there by clicking on our nombres. you have to see the cuties! imperative.
Chicago actually got some snow this week - almost 2 feet! yesss. prime training conditions for the Birkebeiner ski "race" I'm doing in February. I hate the word race - it's so competitive.
But the snow is great fun. The lingering cold is interestingly different from Denver's general return to 70 degrees 2 days after the snow, but I'm adjusting. lots of hot cocoa.
Miss you two!
Amy