A Year In The Life Of A Boy

This is Owen last July, during the first few weeks of our journey:

This is Owen now:

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Daily Life in a Developing Country - The Down Side

Our apartment in Cusco is a nice one, in a good area. We have 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a big living room, and a spectacular view of the valley of Cusco. It's one of the nicer places we've stayed this year. We also have no heat, no hot water heater, and no oven. It's winter here, and it gets to around 30F at night, though it's up to the mid-60s in the day. Our place is FREEZING!!! The heavy pile of alpaca blankets on our beds are warm... so warm that I find excuses to crawl under them earlier and earlier every night.

We were all miserable in the mornings especially, so we finally broke down and got a heater. Well - the kind of heater that one uses around here. We went to the Saturday market a week ago and bought a big clay pot with a hole in the side. It's sort of a Chimera. Then we spent a week looking for the alcohol we needed to burn i

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Video Blog: Lake Titicaca and the Uros

Here's the video of our day on Lake Titicaca with the Uros. Go here to read the blog post of that day.

Snapshots of Cusco

The Main Square on parade day.

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Pic For The Day - Piazza Salimbeni, Sienna, Italy

Yes, we're in Peru now, but we were traveling so much the past couple of months (21 beds in 45 days... three continents and five countries,) that we have quite a backlog of material -- . This is from Sienna, Italy.