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Sewing machine out the window – 6
Mom and Dad The stewardesses held us on the plane until everyone had deboarded, then walked us into the terminal, where my parents and Dennis’ mother waited beside the gate. Dennis was instantly...
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Sewing machine out the window – 7
My cousin on her horse In Casper, Wyoming, I didn’t fit in. But people weren’t unfriendly—they were just curious. I was that “different” girl from back East. Casper was a conservative place. At Kelly...
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Unless something goes terribly wrong
View of Lake Batur from the questionable restaurant We listened to the pitter-patter of little rat feet on the corrugated tin roof of our restaurant as we dined on pizza with fried eggs on top. The...
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Bolivian cuisine
Three years after our trip, McDonalds withdrew from the Bolivian market. Steve stared sadly at his food. It was a skinless chicken leg sitting in a puddle of water in the midst of a vast white plate....
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High-altitude golf and other oddities
Bob takes a swing at the La Paz Golf Club driving range When Bob, Steve, and I went to Bolivia, our goal was to climb a peak higher than 20,000′. For several reasons, which I will come to in another...
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Mountains of the condor
The “head” of the condor is the snowy peak to the left of the shadowy one In preparation for our attempt to climb a 20,000′ Bolivian peak, we had acclimatized for six days at elevations around 12,000...
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High altitude distress
It laughed at us. Steve was not a happy camper. He’d been experiencing typical South American intestinal distress, but the plumbing at the 15,000′+ Refugio in Zongo Pass froze up every night. For...
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The Death Road
How did they even build this road? We returned to La Paz, feeling depleted and discouraged after having failed to meet our goal of climbing Huayna Potosi, a 20,000 footer. It was the wife of our guide...
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Mountain of the corrie and the red deer
Bob climbs out of the corrie This post first appeared in my other blog, Endless Streams and Forests, in March 2009. Beinn Eighe was one of the two “Munros” that Bob and I climbed on a trip to Scotland...
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Cloud line on Ben Nevis
As we approached the cloud line, the valley started to disappear When Bob and I decided to go to Scotland, it went without saying that we would climb Ben Nevis, at 4409′ the highest point in the...
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