The idea for this blog is that you all can follow what is going on and I can document what we do as we travel and volunteer in health clinics in Paraguay for the next two months. Even though both Jill and I are going on the trip, I will write in first person singular because for a large portion of the trip I will be by myself. Jill will meet me for the last two and a half weeks of the trip.
Here is the itinerary:
July 4, 2007: arrive in Lima, Peru.
July 4-5, 2007: travel by bus to La Paz, Bolivia.
July 5, 2007: travel by bus to Sucre, Bolivia, where my friend Nate is doing research.
July 6, 2007: take a tour of the infamous silver mine Potosi, founded in 1546.
July 7, 2007: travel by bus to Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
July 8, 2007: travel by train to Corumba, Brazil.
July 9-12 2007: travel by passenger/cargo boat down the Paraguay river to Asuncion, Paraguay. I hope to sleep in a hammock on this portion of the trip.
July 12-August 10, 2007: volunteer at Clinica Mita'i, a cancer clinic for children, in Asuncion, Paraguay. Mita'i means child in Guarani, which is spoken in Paraguay.
August 10, 2007: pick up my wife Jill from the airport in Asuncion.
August 11-13, 2007: introduce Jill to friends in and around Asuncion.
August 14-15, 2007: travel by bus to the town Saltos del Guaira, Paraguay to visit friends there.
August 16-17, 2007: travel by bus to Corumba, Brazil.
August 18, 2007: travel by train to Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
August 19, 2007: rest in Santa Cruz.
August 20, 2007: travel by bus to La Paz, Bolivia.
August 21, 2007: travel by bus to Cuzco, Peru.
August 22-24, 2007: see Machu Picchu.
August 25,2007: travel by bus to Miraflores, Peru.
August 26-27, 2007: relax in Miraflores.
August 28, 2007: fly home to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Here is a map I made in Paint. It took longer and looks a lot more amateurish than I planned it to be when I started to make it. Red represents the trip I'll take from Lima to Asuncion and Blue represents the trip Jill and I will take. If you click on it you can see a bigger version.
