Thin Air

9,000 feet striaght up. The trip down to Peru wasn't bad, but the 14 hour bus ride up to Cajamarca was tiring!! We traveled through the night, I was happy to see the countryside of cajamarca on our way into the valley Saturday morning. WE are finally here. Its a pretty crowded city, though not to big, lots of crazy taxi drivers, cars, vans, mortorcylcles you name it, they´ll pick you up! Shawn is living it up since he can actually understand all that is going on, as for me i smile and shake my head a whole lot. I am devinitly working on the language. Its a beautiful place here, not much like i imagined, but beautiful. I think I will be ready for some serious Trader Joe´s shopping upon arrival home, but for the next few months I will be trying things i could never before think of. luckily i haven´t had to eat cuy (guinea pig) yet, though we saw some cooked up and then some live ones for sale at the market on monday...Shawn told me i couldn´t have one as a pet.

The Second Beginning

You'd think marriage is adventure enough? We needed something more, so we are moving to Peru. Shawn accepted a Chiropractic position in South America soon after we were married, we have been preparing for our trip ever since. He left about a week ago and I have been working and getting myself ready to fly out on the 14 of Sept. He says that Peru is beautiful and he's very ready for me to join him. I am so excited to get there! We will be living in Cajamarca Peru, it's a city about 600 miles north of Lima. Its in the Andes Mountains about 8000 ft. i am going to meet an alpaca and shave it and make yarn. We will stay there for atleast 8 months. Then the plan is to backpack home through Central America. All of this and i have yet to mail all our thank you's from the wedding! I better go get those finished!

Prepare yourself for the fun adventure that is my life.

With love,
Stina