Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Lima, LA, Chicago
Start location: Los Angeles, CA End location: Chicago, IL Miles today: Miles total: Min altitude: Max altitude: Min temp: Max temp: 102F outside Vegas airport (I didn’t leave the airconditioned building) 87F at 1am in Chicago I celebrated being back by flushing toilet paper, ordering a coffee that didn’t come in concentrated form, and by [...]
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
Last day at the clinic, Cajamarca, Peru
Location: Cajamarca, Peru Today is our last day working in the Centro Medico “Padre Luis Tezza” in Cajamarca. Despite the fact that we were going to do some amazing sightseeing in the coming days, I don’t think any of us wanted to stop working and leave the clinic. The medical folks had a lot of [...]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Cumbe Mayo, Peru
Start location: Cajamarca, Peru Other location: Cumbe Mayo, Peru Min altitude: 8750 ft Max altitude: 11,550 ft. Today got off to a rough start, but it was all my own fault. A late night in Usha Usha, after a rich meal with wine and Pisco does not make for a happy day of hiking at [...]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Clinic and the Mountains, Peru
Start location: Cajamarca, Peru Other locations: Mountains outside of town towards El Galeno mine Min altitude: 8750 ft Max altitude: 11,700 ft Today was a slow day at the clinic – very few patients. Found out that all of the cleft palate patients I had intended to photograph had already been treated by another group [...]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Clinic and Banos del Inca, Peru
Location: Cajamarca, Peru Max altitude: 8800 ft. After a couple of pretty intense days the pace has caught up with me. I managed to stay more or less on top of journal entries and photos for the first few days – adrenaline helps – but at a certain point I had to give up on [...]