The Big Field Trip

Well, we’ve had a good week in Lima. We got our Brazilian visas and planned our itinerary for the next few months in Peru. We are off to Tarapoto tomorrow and we’ll spend almost a week at the Abra Patricia Ecolodge. We plan on taking lots of photos and videos and making posts daily. While [...]

From the big field trip

                From our apartment you can see a big mound of dirt, but if you get closer you will see a big pyramid. It is made of adobe bricks stacked vertically. It sort of looks like a bookshelf. It was made like that to absorb shocks from earthquakes.  It was made [...]

     After years of planning, on October first the Kirkman clan will board a plane headed for Peru. Peru is a country in South America. It is about three times larger than California. Roughly one-third of Peru is coastal desert, one-third is mountains, and one-third is rainforset. Most Peruvians speak Spanish, though many speak Quechua, which is [...]