Claren's Guestbook

Sounds good! It all sounds very interesting, glad you're having fun. We miss you!

Hoback
Life is again, grand!!! Todd has been sending me texts about what they have been finding up in the Sweet Water area! They are having a marvelous time and have found what they believe to be an other wagon wreck at approximately where the wreck would have occurred for the two gentlemen in the Seminoe Grave area! They have found a Medicine Wheel on top of one of the mountains where they did some surveying. Bill and Em are in California for the week and Emmy sent me a photo of her on the beach in shirt sleeves and as usual she is so adorable. I, on the other hand, had such an incredible 10 days at work. There are 20 of us up there, or were, and so Page paired us up for the first 10-day! Larry Amundson, the President of the Fremont County and state WAS was coming down the hill as Page started to do this...so...I worked as a unit buddy with Larry for the first 10-day and we had a great time. Haven't found anything incredible interesting in our unit - just had a great visit and talked about old friends and times in Riverton. But...in the same unit that they found the corner of the roasting pit last year, they found the remainder of it in the two adjoining units. Page believes that this is the largest roasting pit found in the state as of this time. It is large, over 1 meter wide! This was cool! In my unit I am coming down on thousands of little FCR flecks and the soil became very solid and dense, as if it has been kilned. So we shall see. It is still very hard to complain about anything about the job. Working and living where we are and getting paid to do it! How can anybody be upset about that. Hope you are doing well! Sounds as if you are enjoying yourself!!

It begins
Took me awhile but I found the comment spot. Nothing like a real bed, even a shared one. Looooove following you around the globe

Signs of life por favor???? Made it to Crete?

Preserved oranges and grapes? Sounds yummy. See if you can dig up or recall some local recipes! Good lamb pilaf? Or is that too Turkish, Iranian like?

un-requested paternal advice...
Hi Claren. Your credit card might not work if it does not have one of these recent chips that call for a pin # rather than a signature. I had that happen in Wales, but keep on trying 'cause there remain some stores that still handle the non-chip credit cards. You probably have a debit card? It could be that only 10% of Bank's debit machines take foreign ones...They worked better than credit cards in Africa, where Traveller's checks were nightmarish to cash in. For your photos: you may be able to download them (or some of them) on a flash card and you can download from that into your Facebook site which you can access from any cybercafe (usually more frequent and cheaper outside 1st world). After download you can erase and start anew! Peru is known for its most delicious ceviche, but 'turista' can come with it.... Some of the best archaeological visits are on the desert-like Coast sites (Moche culture, for instance) away from the tourist-packed Highlands. I am glad that leaving the airport/bus station went well. These are the worst sites for taking newcomers for the kind of ride they don't want. Every cab/cab driver should carry an official cab permit in sight of the passengers (hard to assess validity though), 'cause there are many pretend cabs that are very bad news... Good that you are getting exposed to proud applied anthropologists! Theoretical anth. is over-rated, but do not conclude that it is only hot air! But it just needs not be pre-eminent.... End of uncalled for fatherly advice... I'm so happy that you are striking out worldwide on your own! I sent you email about the Rhode University in South-Africa. Love, Olivier