August 2011
27 posts
MIRT End of Trip Reflection
Being the type of person I am, I always make plans and have clear outlines of what I will be doing before participating in most activities. This is probably best exemplified this summer in Peru when on a mini trip from Lima to Cusco, 600 miles to the southeast, I had prepared a color coded itinerary of our trip: plans for what hostel we were staying in and hour outlines of what museums and...
Here is More on Machu Picchu since I did not talk about it alot in the picture posts below:
ABOUT MACHU PICCHU
Nobody has been able yet to solve the mystery about how the transportation of huge blocks of limestone to the top of the mountain was made for the construction of the city. How the Incas built more than 14,000 miles of roads, 600 terraces, thousands of steps, several temples, 16...
This was supposed to show up with the last picture post but here it is:
The Iglesia/Convento de San Francisco (Church/Monastery of Saint Francis) is the most visited and perhaps most important church in Lima. The yellow church was completed in 1674, and it definitely fits the “Baroque” style of architecture that is scattered across the city and in the center. Andrea and I went here...
July 2011
26 posts
THE MIRT PROJECT
So all of my funding for this trip was paid for by a program from the University of Washington. The idea is to give American students an international research experience in Public Health fields. Students all over the country are eligible and they selected 8 fellows for the program this year. The program has sites all over the world: Mexico, Chile, Peru, Ethiopia, Thailand, Vietnam, and...
