Guinea pigs are surprisingly versatile little critters. Not only do they look good on a little treadmill, according to the Incas they also had diagnostic capabilities. If, for instance, you had a stomach ache, you needed to hold a guinea pig against it while you were asleep. The next morning, a priest would cut open […]
Last Sunday we picked up my girlfriend Karin from Santiago airport. She will be traveling with us to Bolivia! Great fun; she’s an experienced traveler, very relaxed and lots of fun so the perfect company on the road. After one day together in Santiago, we flew to Calama, only to discover that although we had […]
The past two weeks have flown by very rapidly. Erwin managed to stand on his kite surf board for all of 2 seconds after the last day of his course, but both his teacher and he claim this is due to a lack of wind. Sure, babe. During our stay at the Tiwa resort in […]
Boy, did we learn a lot in these past few days! I guess you can summarize it all with: if you rent a car in Brazil, get a navigation system, but here’s the long version. Last sunday we flew from Rio to Salvador, in Brazil’s North East. Hertz had a little Fiesta waiting for us […]
