...where gringos dare

Starving for adventure after a painstaking summer of motorcoach driving, four young amigos: Ashley, myself, Seth, and the man who prefers Fernando to his real name, left the discomforts of their known worlds behind to travel South of America to... South America.

So... South America. More specifically Peru. Where we would spend the next three months doing and seeing various things. It was October 2010 when we arrived, so yes... the distant past, but I think it is due time to account for the trip. We flew into Lima, where we didn't stay too long, only a few days, but we all met up and went to the beach, which wasn't very beachy.

anyways an anonymous photo of the Fernando already sporting his peruvian beanie

I call this photo... Seth's future album cover.


Yeah so the beaches were rocky, and it wasn't very warm, but people were surfin.

It was never really sunny in Lima, always kinda hazy.

Anyways I didn't really take many photos of Lima. We did some stuff though. Walked around. Ate some Chinese food in Peruvian China Town, where I didn't actually see any Chinese people, although I've heard they do exist. We rode some buses (or collectivos), explored a little bit, and concluded that Lima was not the place for us. There was some good food, nice little Peruvians, and some cool old Spanish buildings and stuff but we had come to Peru for a reason... The Andes.

Whittier. Portage.

So I realize that the blogs have been backed up and I have been missing and presumed dead for almost a year which is both bogus and sad. Anyways here is the last post from summer '10 in Alaska. We had a pretty epic day in Whittier, that odd little town of secrets beyond the tunnel. The conclusion is that Whittier is pretty cool, and creepy.

We illegitimately entered the premises of the condemned old barracks dating back to WW2. It was big and creepy but despite previous claims we found no evidence of ghosts or murders.

Some of Seth's shenagins

The place was flooded and abandoned, and decorated with the symbols of teenage rebellion

Most everything had already been broken or defacated on, leaving only room for photos

From the outside, equally creepy

So... ninety times out of ninety one it is rainy down in Whittier, which is why the government made it into a secret base for evil experiments. Today on the other hand... I think a hike is in order.

"Wheeeeee!"

Yeah so we hiked over portage pass to the lake and the glacier by the same name. Seth in an act of hysterical joy stripped himself and did a bare-ass cannonball into the icy waters. I came around the corner just in time to catch the aftermath on film.

glaciers=cool

alas to taste the sweet glacial nectar

Just some action photos of us messin around with ice.

The return hike

Three amigos

Seth using his super sluething techniques to determin the unique characteristics of this bear feces.

Friends... with benifits.

More from the roof of the barracks. Out of order since this was actually the beginning of the day but... Some cool photos.

So it turns out that despite his many strengths, Seth is obnoxiously terrified of heights. Which Ashley finds hilarious.

And so the end of another summer begins a new adventure... South America... and beyond.