In order to avoid the larger job of a travelogue at the end of this trip, I will do little ones along the way, and you can join us with only a brief lag in time.

We are now in Puna, holed up for three days in the Samrat Hotel, in order to reconstitute our sense of humor, our strength, and lost sleep. We left McLeod on New Years Day, at 6:30 pm for an overnight bus ride to Delhi, 500 km distant to the southeast. Unlike our last bus ride, the one that brought us here and to the brink of the jim jams, this one ... (more)