Welcome to the blog! This first bit is by way of explaining what Chris and I will be up to in the coming 11 months or so. For those of you who have been to the pub with either of us in the last 18 months or so this information has already become tediously repetititious so feel free to skip ahead.
On January 18th at 4am we shall begin the 12 hour process of flying to Quito in Ecuador, where we will be hosted by an Ecuadorian family for three months while we do goodly works in the community and Chris tries to learn to like fish stew. From here we travel via the Galapagos Islands through Ecuador and northern Peru in a month before pitching up in Cuzco, where we spend two more months volunteering, climb Macchu Picchu, swim Lake Titicaca, farm the llamas and change socks. Then a whistlestop tour of Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, before collapsing in a heap in Rio and flying home in time for Christmas.
At least that's the plan. The problem with planning a trip for so long is that when it actually arrives it doesn't feel any more momentous or real than booking a long weekend on the Isle of Wight. Consequently I've thrown a load of equipment (crampons, quindingles, everything solar-powered) out of Chris's backpack that he will almost certainly require immediately upon arrival, and have failed to go to the dentist to have a tooth filled. I call this 'intrepid and fearless'. Chris calls this 'badly prepared and foolhardy'. Potato, Patate...
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