Rosie and Luke

Ola, as we are again in the land of the spanish-speakers! That's right, we are back in the Andes, having done a huge circle around S.A. We just finished three weeks of volunteering in the cloud forest in Northern Ecuador near a place called Nanegal. Our project was at an birding ecolodge in the mountains called Santa Lucia. Very beautiful place The cloud forest, aptly named, is in constant cloud cover, and March happens to be the rainiest month of the year there. Ha. Lucky us. Yeah it rained alot, but it didn't dampen our spirits, as the folks that work there are some of the most amazing people I have ever met. They got crazier and crazier as the days went by - and the weekends down in Nanegal were a drunken blur of ... read more

Hey all, while chilling in Lima, visiting Vivanda's at least twice a day, and waiting for Cole and Amy to show up, we decided to make an overnight trip to Pisco, dubbed the poor man's Galapagos Islands for its abundant wildlife, easy access, and tolerable price tag. We had been staying at the Flying Dog where there happened to be a lot of people just kind of chilling and not really doing much but eating and drinking, so one night we found ourselves hanging out with a bunch of older guys (by older I mean like 40ish) pounding back Brahmas and taking turns guessing which Peruvian girls were prostitutes, as alot of them apparently hang out in Miraflores, looking for the rich foreigners. I, personally, didn't think any of them were prostitutes, but according to ... read more

Bom Dia! Tudo Bem? (Good morning, everything well?) Kind of the classic greeting in Brazil, or at least in Rio State where we are. We had to get out of the monotony of Saquarema for at least a few days, so we planned an overnight trip to Rio, which is only two hours away, but truly the world away as far as our connection to it. If you love the beach, which I do, Saquarema is perfect, but our apartment is cooking day and night and our skins have been peeling since our last bad sunburn, so it was time to do something else other than play cards, eat, drink, or lay in the sun. So off to Rio it was, with only a vague idea of where we wanted to go in the massive city, ... read more

Rosanne says that these are much more spectacular then Niagra. All I can say is that they were damn awesome. There are 240 falls or something in total at the Iguazu national park which boarders Brzail and Argentina. We were tipped off by a friend to not go with a tour group and get to the park as early as possible which was the best advice we could get becasue we showed up at 7 in the morning and just about had the first couple of hours in the park to ourselfs before the tour buses started rolling in with the crowds of people. With nobody around it made the photos much nicer because by the noon the park was packed like disneyland. Anyways we were strolling around the park checking out different water falls and ... read more

So we met some cool guys from Brazil while staying at the Sohostel in Palermo, and we ran into two Canadian chicks that we had done the Inca Trail with in Cuzco, and they invited us over for a little dinner party before the real festivities got going in the big city for New Years Eve. Turns out that the party doesn't start in Buenos Aires until 2 or 3am, even on New Years! So the girls made us an awesome dinner in their apartment, and we managed to scrape together a pretty sweet white wine sangria with their 8 leftover bottles! Gabriel, our food-loving friend, was on his best behaviour, only eating as much as the next person, but he did show us a bit of his true colours, by busting out his secret blue ... read more