...and now I must prepare for my travels.

Summer has been in full swing for a while now. I have been pedicabbing like crazy to make enough money for my trip to South America. Finally I have more than enough money for the trip. Now I just have to acquire a few supplies for my travels. I dropped by REI yesterday and picked up a sweet Ortlieb waterproof messenger bag (this thing boasts over 1800 cubic inches of volume!) Now all I need is a copy of Adobe Photoshop to run on my Mac and a LaCie "rugged" 250 GB external hard drive to store all of my photography. Sadly, I didn't get the chance to purchase a new Nikon D90 camera with lenses before the trip so I suppose the old D100 will have to do the job for now.

Where is the Wayfaring Anthropologist going to travel you ask? Well the current plan is as follows: 1) fly into Lima on the 10th of September and stay with friends for a few weeks and begin surf lessons. 2) visit the town Huaraz in the Callejon de Huaylas region of northern Peru for a few days to a week. 3) return to Lima and hang out for a while and possibly purchase a cheap surf board. 4) hop busses heading southward through Peru stopping in the regions of Pisco, Ica/Huacachina and Nazca. 5) continue heading south into Chile and stopping in places such as Atacama, Valparaiso, Santiago, etc. I plan to keep moving to photograph and cover as much distance as possible. Time and money permitting, I might also make it to Uruguay and/or Argentina. That is uncertain at this point however.

I shall post again once my plans are finalized. I leave for Lima in 29 days.
peace-james