by Eileen | Jan 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Not too terribly long ago I was struck with a spate of laziness. I wasn’t too far from home, maybe a 30 minute walk, but I got on the bus anyway. This particular bus (the 505) runs down Santo Domingo, a narrow street with commerce and people and bustle and the...
by Eileen | Jan 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
There comes a time after a trip when every reasonable person must unpack their bag, backpack, wheelie suitcase or whathaveyou. I’ve been known to leave a bag lying around the house for a day or two while I contemplate the task. But not this time.As a person with...
by Eileen | Jan 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
There’s this really ugly side of travelling that no one really wants to talk about. This is not an oblique reference to how dirty our clothes are, or how often we bypass a shower because it’s just not worth it. This is about getting sick on the road....
by Eileen | Dec 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here in the dusty outpost touristy town of San Pedro de Atacama, there are still a lot of street dogs, still alot of somewhat overpriced but high quality woven alpaca scarves and their cheaper and dubiously-alpaca glove brothers at the market next to where the famous...
by Eileen | Dec 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
I bet you think you know how to fry an egg. I bet you crack the egg into a bowl with a fork, beat it and beat it, making a funny gravity-defying whorl in the bowl until you dump it into the ready-and-waiting pan, with melted butter. Then you stirra-stirra-stirra until...
by Eileen | Dec 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
There have been times when I’ve realized that I know a word in Spanish, without remembering ever having learned it. The word huelga (strike) comes to mind, about which I had this realization standing in a railroad station in northeastern Spain, hoping to catch a...
