In October of 2003 I went to South America, the following posts, are from the emails I sent to friends and family. Reading back through the letters it is amazing how many things I have absolutely no memory of, though they must have been incredibly vivid at the time.
2003
Subject: Email 9 : Valparaiso
(02 Dec 2003) Chaps, Hotmail has seen fit to change my email. Where is the warning. I am stumbling around blind here. Anyway I will be home soon on the 7th of December, so the great adventure is in its last days. I am currently in Valparaiso, which is on the Pacific coast about an … Continue reading Subject: Email 9 : Valparaiso
Subject: Email 8 : Uyuni
(25 Nov 2003) Compadres I am currently in the dusty one tourist town of Uyuni, no there are actually little clumps of tourists waiting to depart for adventures on the salt flats. I think when bored I will work out a collective noun for tourists. In Uyuni and in Oruro the previous place I laid … Continue reading Subject: Email 8 : Uyuni
Subject: Email 7 : La Paz
(22 Nov 2003) Chaps, The tour arrived in La Paz a couple of days ago, and we’re all gradually saying goodbye to all the tour folk. I leave tomorrow for Oruro, this will be the predominantly travelling part of the trip as I head overland using public transport to Santiago. On the way I want … Continue reading Subject: Email 7 : La Paz
Subject: Email 6 : Puno
(19 Nov 2003) Chaps, After Cusco we had a day sitting on truck cum bus Nelly. This involved travelling across the antiplano. The day was very clear, so there was an awesome light creating shadows on the rock formations and snow capped peaks. We arrived in Puno, which straddles Lake Titicaca. The next day Bibby … Continue reading Subject: Email 6 : Puno
Subject: Email 5 : Cusco again
(16 Nov 2003) Amigos Back into Cusco after the Inca Trail. I have done the Inca Trail! It was a challenge. The first day was a nice walk through some small highland settlements. The second day was a challenge with Bibby walking from 2800 to 4198, to climb up to Dead Woman's Pass. There was … Continue reading Subject: Email 5 : Cusco again
Subject: Email 4 : Cusco
(10 Nov 2003) Chaps, Tour group Kumuka is having 2 days in Cusco, to get used to altitude, before embarking on the Inca Trail trek. Altitude sux a bit. You can do about 1/2 of what you can usually do exercise wise. Though alcohol doesn't help, many in my party got silly last night after … Continue reading Subject: Email 4 : Cusco
Subject: Email 3 : Arequipa
(06 Nov 2003) Chaps, Thanks heaps everyone for all the news, especially news about the new baby. What a great name. Today we hit civilization after four days of camping. I wrote this the other day. This is written from a small cove on the Pacific with waves crashing against the shore. Just like the … Continue reading Subject: Email 3 : Arequipa
Subject: Email 2 : Lima, Peru
(01 Nov 2003) Amigos I wrote this sitting in a cafe in Miraflores - I type this in an Internet cafe, surrounded by Peruvian youth of today playing PC games. Miraflores is a suburb of Lima. It is near the beach, which is not the greatest, grey, gravelly and polluted. Still, there are surfer specks … Continue reading Subject: Email 2 : Lima, Peru
Subject: Email 1 : Santiago de Chile
(28 Oct 2003) Chaps, Bibby somewhat out of the habit of long-haul flying found the flight long and pretty trying - but she arrived safely. After 35 hours with only 3 hours of sleep booking a ticket to Lima created lots of mutual confusion between me and the kind man. I also had to ask … Continue reading Subject: Email 1 : Santiago de Chile
Dispatches from Victory 