by phoenix | Oct 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
One of the first Australian films I ever showed Doug was The Old Man who Read Love Stories, Rolf de Heer’s divine piece about the Amazon jungle with Richard Dreyfus as an old man learning to read. He has this beautiful latino accent as he reads these trashy love...
by phoenix | Oct 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
I can understand why Paddington Bear needed a duffle coat in England if he was used to the heat of the Amazon. We stepped off the plane and instantly felt the muggy love.The boat ride to Explorer’s inn was already amazing. We saw turtles on the Tambopata river...
by phoenix | Oct 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
Finally got to Pachacamac, the Inca ruins south of Lima. Quite incredible. We wandered around for a while wondering why they had built their huge temples and city here when we went up inside the Templo del Sol and over it and suddenly could see the entire Pacific...
by phoenix | Oct 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Doug says he´s found the world´s best sport: bus surfing in Peru. We hopped on a mini-bus tonight on the way back from dinner (omigod, ceviche mixto — amazing marinated raw fish and seafood in lime and chillis) and I can´t count the number of times it almost...
by phoenix | Oct 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
Our flights were delayed, we almost missed our connection so that a three-hour layover in Houston turned into a five-minute sprint between terminals only to find the second flight had also been delayed. Doug kept saying, “any day in which I don’t have to...
