Weve been in Bolivia umm 6 days I think - Its been a bit stressful - Gavs come down with something scarey, hes over the road in the hospital getting some through tests this time - when he first got sick we thought it was probably altitude sickness - we were up at about 2800mtrs in Tupiza, but the doctor at the hospital there thought it was simonella posioning due to drinking the tap water. He gave him some wicked pills that make him reech :< and so we headed north to Ohuro but he got worse if anything - so [View Full Entry]

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After a saline drip, 8 blood tests and a chest Xray, The doctors say Gav has pnuemonia .... They gave him a shot of something and sent us away with a script and he will have to come back Monday for a consultation with the specialist. ...hehe nice to lay in a bed for a day with a drip and stare at the ceiling, feeling a little more human after some good concoctions.....iv style... hopefully will be all clear monday.... love and miss you all, thanks for the concern.. [View Full Entry]

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And from Misones onwards - a long left hand curve to Resistencia by bus (to be stranded a whole day in this humourless city, sigh) Then over night again, northward by bus to Salta. This was a very pleasant place , very few spanish looking people now, more and more native faces. We happened onto a tidy little hotel with a charming host - Lucas. Very freindly, happy to let us practice our pretty sad spanish! A pretty gondala ride to the top of the mountain for a birds eye veiw of the city, which is built on a huge plain. [View Full Entry]

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Enchanting falls.. Back over the boarder, a bus ride from the grass planes to the jungle from dry to hot humid and a wee bit sticky, a 3km walk along the highway under somewhat intense sun... wondering all the time why nobody from the eldridge side has bothered to write yet...(apart from the fact you all work in front of computers) hint hint..... anyway we got to play with a baby lepoard for a while and blew us both quite away... hungry buzzards, lots of big tigers to look at close enough to eat us... buses buses and more buses, a [View Full Entry]

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6 days ago we were in B A, we have crossed the Rio del Planta,( roughly translated - brown soup river) by ferry boat and buss´d along the coast to stay in Montevideo , Capital of Uruguay - 2 nights, Manatales- sleepy beach town- 2 nights and now back in M. and on the way we came apon a great pelvis, so down we sat elvis to have a photo moment... he was elated.. and then shoe shopping for three hrs and no sale......$$$bling$$$..... ooo the beaches here are littered with headless chickens and all sorts of voodoo accoutriments eg candles [View Full Entry]

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Home of a thousand pesos, steak to drool over and enough leg room only for a small mouse....or maybe kate...hmmm and a wee ride over the andies at 8000meters... after a synthetic omlette a strange aeorplane bun an air hostess with large hands and an adams apple we arrive in the not so wee town of bunes aires... Hmmm seems all so long ago we had jobs and our snug little flat in Jackson street...hehe just rolling into the grace of ample shopping and walks that go forever, cemetarys with bones poking out of boxes and beautiful stain glass windows.... but [View Full Entry]

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greetings and salutations to all of you that have ventured into our self indulgent four month journey prior to the hatching of wee Kate and Gav junior, we will try as often as bandits, kidnappers and large jungle animals will allow to keep it up to date and full of eye candy....so please if we dissapear for a bit worry not we are just simply having far too much fun to be sitting in front of a computer blogging... we fly out Sunday the 13th at 11am from wellington, then arrive in argentina about 7pm...hehe all a bit fuzzy bout this [View Full Entry]

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