So yesterday was an amazing day!! We woke up at 6 am and met our biking tour guide at a local cafe. We took a 45 minute drive to our starting point which was at 4700 km elevation. I actually lost my balance in the first 30 seconds on the bike at toppled over. After that I was fine. The first few legs of the ride were pretty easy, fairly level road with easy going gravel. I opted out of a grueling 8 km uphill bike ride that the boys in our group did. Then got back on the bike at the start of the "World's Most Dangerous Road" The road was very narrow and had loose gravel with large rocks in the road ("murder muffins"). We also had to share the road with cars. It ... read more

Today we met with our local coordcinator to discuss our work in the hospital. Our coordinator will be showing us how to transit to the hospital and tomorrow we are going to the hospital to meet the director and hopefully will find our who our preceptors are. Later today we will be shoipping and booking our bike trip that we´re doing this weekend!! The city seems very safe and our house has a double deadbolt steel gate outside it. The house is very comfortable, we´re fed super healthy food, and our host mamma is very nice. My Spanish is coming along and hopefully will come back and be able to conversate with Mark before he goes to Argentina. The high altitude has been a little strange to get used to. My face and fingers are tingling ... read more

Laundry is done, travel docs printed, and my bag is just about packed!!! Getting pretty excited to head off to South America. See y'all in a few months. ... read more