Ayacucho dreamin’

Family forever!
Your photos convince me that I must make this road trip--fab scenery! How wonderful to have your brother along on the final adventure of this mother and remembered-father trip. How wise to acknowledge the ebb and flow of grief, and best wishes discovering the gifts under the pain. Buen viaje!

Those prickly pears hurt.
You can tell your mum that I bought one of those cactus fruit without spines and yet my hand was still full of them. I think there may be a knack some people have, I certainly don't! Loving the waterproof ponchos too. And I think your dad would greatly approve of how you have acted and how you have helped each other. I'm sending you all a big huge hug. Besos.

i managed it pretty good
in Tenerife i feast on them. I manage pretty good to pick that tuna fruit up, i brake one of big spikes and with it brush/poke out those small dots with irritating soft spikes out, even blow them off the fruit when they loose, but still some on the fruit, then i manage to peal of skin and really, very few are on my skin nor tongue, which counts as none :) its quite tidy and slow effort, but worth it! Thanks, i didnt know fruits called Tuna :)

no better
this is as good instructions as i can describe..may be better ways can be figured on your own :) the cactuses got to Canaries the same way as potatoes :) judging by areas they spread it was long time ago.