I like to explore and tell descriptive stories about places. I also make jewelry, music and mixed-media art.
Here I am at an internet enfoq in a neighborhood in Iquitos, Loreto, Peru, the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, a good place as any to begin these travel stories. This blog will focus on Peru and Bolivia for a while since that is my current journey, but will eventually include places in North America […]
Read More birth in Iquitos…..LA PAZ, BOLIVIA JUNE 29-30, 2015 The sun beams down in its noon warmth upon my return to La Paz, Bolivia’s major Andean city, so I take my friend’s ‘challenge’ and stay for a night. This is my second pass through La Paz…in the first, the cold late afternoon air made my lungs hurt from […]
Read More Making peace with La PazJUNE 2015 The southern cloud forest starts to the west of the Santa Cruz lowlands. Following the slow curvy rise of the Pirai river into the low mountains, the crowded combi climbs through the canyon and its soft dirt carretera. There are small waterfalls and towering red rock faces covered in green. The air smells […]
Read More Samaipata, BoliviaJUNE 2015 Santa Cruz de la Sierra is the major city in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia: modern, tropical, and growing fast. From the air it looks like a spider web, with the carreteras intersected by a series of anillos (rings) numbered 1-7 starting in the center. I’m in Santa Cruz to visit my friend […]
Read More Santa Cruz de los Anillos, Bolivia
arianna's creative travels 