Again, I marvel at those how find time on such trips to post blogs each day. I know I’m supposed to be linked, minute by minute, to the rest of the world in this global IT age, but I wonder if people are connecting with each other every minute, when do they have time to live their lives? So busy have I been here in Peru that I haven’t had time to write a single blog. I got here on the 10th and took a rare bit of ime off in the midst of these trips to go to Macchu Pichu. The site itself was amazing, as you would imagine – an ancient civilization frozen in time. But everything leading up to it – the town of Cuzco where most tourists leave from to reach Macchu Picchu, and the town of Aguas Calientes at the base of the mountain itself, are everything that has gone wrong in a gloablized world. Every shop in the ancient town of Cuzco, one the Inca capital, is either a money exchange, a tourist booking agency or a restaurant – including a McDonalds, tucked into a corner of the ancient square.
Working for three different agencies this week has been interesting. Perhaps the oddest moment came last night when I was literally shooting photos in a gay sauna for a health agency while talking on the phone with a priest to coordinate today’s work at a seminary outside of Lima. Such is often my life on these trips. In fact, have to run now and find this seminary…
December 20th, 2009 | by David in Travel
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