It's about time. Monday, the last day of June, will mark the day I leave for Lima, Peru and begin helping out with Stanford's Archaelogical Dig at Chavín de Huantar. I'm sure people will ask how things are going; whether I've gotten lost yet, and so on... so I resurrected an old blog. You can see from the posts below that my output, so to speak, has been pretty anemic, but I'm working on that. Be sure to check back during July and August to see how things are going, or just look at the pretty pictures. I'll do my best to be faithful, amigos, but if my past is any indication, I'll fail miserably.Preparations!
Because the site is high in the Andean mountains and relatively isolated from the rest of Peru, many of our gear has to be bought in the U.S. -- email after email to our group members ironed out the thorny details of our luggage, so that we could sally forth to the hardware store. Today Charlie and I hit up the two most crucial locations: Home Depot (that Canaan of Suburbia), and the Cockeysville Public Library (which, incidentally, circulates about 9.4 books per capita in MD, the 10th most in America). At Home Depot, I picked up a few essentials: gloves, knee pads, a trowel, a line level, and a tape measure (metric). The library was far more fun - I was finally able to stock up on books for the next month-and-a-half. A list of the selected:
- Good Poems, by Garrison Keillor
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
- Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Rum Diary, by Hunter S. Thompson
- Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson
- Lamb, by Christopher Moore
- The Lost Continent, by Bill Bryson
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