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Hi! My name is Lisa and I love to travel to experience other cultures and have fun doing the unexpected along the way. I love ancient history and archaeology (particularly of the Egypt and Levant). I am a bit of an amatuer photographer, unfortunately, I just got a brand new D-300 and have to learn to use it, (while I am on this trip), so the pictures should get better by the time we get to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos. Speaking of the Galapagos, my day job is animal care. I have spent a fair amount of traveling before I started this blog, with trips to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Greece, Italy, Spain, France, England, Belize, Guatamala, Mexico, China (Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao), Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand. Everywhere I have gone, I have learned something not only about myself but about the people who live in these places. So, following, is my best attempt to sum up my most recent travels, missadventures and interesting things I will see and do along the way. Warning, the following pages may be offensive to some viewers due to my dry humor and biting sarcasm. If you find it offensive, feel free to go elsewhere!
Joined on: January 28th 2008
Last Login: August 23rd 2008
Blog Entries: 11
Photos: 163
Last Login: August 23rd 2008
Blog Entries: 11
Photos: 163
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I added more pictures...... [View Full Entry]
By QCLC
August 2nd 2008
August 2nd 2008
Watch those sea lions....they bite!
South America » Ecuador » Galapagos Islands
O.K, so we have finally made it to the the Galapagos Islands. After a rather lengthy delay on Tame Airlines and what at best could be described as optional security and barely controlled chaos at the airport we arrive to find out we have missed the first full day of our tour! Not exactly a great way to start but we are sure the next day will improve. We participate in what at the time I think is one of those stupid muster drills, where you take your life vest put it on and agree on a meeting place. Well, I [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 50 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=311900] | 2008-08-14 03:32:45
Apparently, over packing is a secondary disorder, brought on by compulsive shopping. My name is Lisa and I am a chronic shopaholic. It doesn't even have to be for me. Heck, I even get stuff for my friends, family, and staff all resulting in me lugging around stuff for my six weeks. The trick was in avoiding paying any overweight luggage fees when we were limited to 20 kilos total for the whole 6 weeks and we started with more than that! for those of you dying to know, we never paid excess or any luggage fees. This brings me to [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=311491] | 2008-08-14 03:23:41
This should really be called the Inca trail, Machu Picchu and Huayna Piccu and what was I thinking when I packed for this and do people really wear the same clothes for 4 days??????? First, let me tell you, I apparently have chronic overpackers disorder. I am admitting it now, I overpack! I think it goes along with be prepared... for rain, snow, a heat wave, a tornado, a plague, the second comming and a bad case of digestive upset. Fortunately none of these things happened, which left me and my porter holding the bags, quite literally! Second, if one desires [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 41 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=311481] | 2008-08-14 02:54:26
Cusco was really our biggest introduction to the impact the Spanish had on the Andean people. Cusco, was the thriving heart of the Andean people until the Spanish destroyed it searching for gold, building churches and corrupting the traditional ways and beliefs of the Andean people. Now, what remains requires you to use your imagination to see, for instance the layout of the stones in Sassaywama to look like a paw print or a llama. Or Cusco itself, layed out to form a Jaguar (a sacred animal to the Inca's). Juxtaposed with the stunning alterpieces and artwork inside the Cathedral gives [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 14 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=311474] | 2008-08-14 03:17:27
O.K, so I'll be honest, I arranged this part of our trip to be able to see the famous market in Pisac, after all a girl has to get her retail therapy in sometime. Well, Pisac is a small town about 40 minutes by public bus from Cusco. (Yes, despite the horror of our hotel owner, we took the public bus.) Pisac is famous for it's market and who can resist that? Don't believe he hype. In the rating of markets I have seen it wouldn't crack the top 5! It might make the top ten. The problem is really the [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 14 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=302709] | 2008-08-14 02:29:11
After our journey concluded with Roberto, We had a day and a half in Huacachina. This is a place that looks exactly like the dunes of Arizona, mixed in with a Middle Eastern Oasis and a younger backpacking crowd. I decided to take a shot and got myself a lesson in sandboarding. Let me say this now, IT IS WAY HARDER THAN IT LOOKS! I personally have never snowboarded or skied, so this was entirely a new experience. The first clue I should have had was the fact that I was gasping for breath walking up the hill in the ski [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=302507] | 2008-07-22 04:32:39
We arrived to Ica by 4 hour bus from Lima after a flight from Iquitos. I immediatly contacted our desert guide Roberto Penny Cabrera. Well, as luck would have it, he and his story and trip very similiar to ours, was picked up by the New York Times the day before, so we got to hear all about it for the days we were with him. (Just in case you all think we are copying the NYT, let me assure you I planned this trip last year. ) Roberto is an enigma, on one hand he seems to enjoy attention and [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 6 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=302498] | 2008-07-22 04:22:18
Well, we are really are finally here. For the history of Easter Island, please consult Lonely Planet or your local library or if you are lazy, try Wikipedia. Needless to say the five hour flight was worth it. It is interesting in that I came to this place with a whole bunch of questions about the Moai. I am leaving with more. It seems that in absence of written information about the histoy of the Island, Rapa Nui´s people rely on the oral tradition. Considering that small pox nearly wiped out the population (down to a little more than 100 native [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 6 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=295461] | 2008-07-05 19:14:44
Well, not quite. I am sure there were a LOT of other animals with us, but we were luckily the only guests at our lodge, which meant we had a private guide, driver, bartender, chef and one hell of a good time. The result of this alone time is that we got to really know everyone who worked at the lodge and got to do exactly what we wanted to do and see exactly what we wanted to see. I got to help one of the guys learn English from a grammer and in the process learned just how much Spanish [View Full Entry]
QCLC - QCLisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=298906] | 2008-07-13 03:30:02