Living Morganism

Aviv´s awesome tattoo. Reads: ¨podran cortar todos las flores pero, no podran detener la Primavera¨-Pablo Neruda. Transalation: "you can cut down al the flowers, but you can't stop the Spring"

Incan built wall at cave site above Cuzco Aviv and Natalie at Incan caves

Beautiful mountain view above Cuzco Dear all, it is diffficult to describe the events that have transpired since mylast email, it is as though another whole trip has occured in the lastmonth. Since leaving the farm in Ecuador we have been to beautifulbeaches, desert oasis, seen the most powerful sunsets, camped in avast desert under an eclipsing full moon, volunteered to clean trashfrom that desert (Peru is pretty much a vast desert until you get intothe mountains or over them into the Amazon), bathed in miracle greenwater, Aviv has gotten one beautiful tattoo, visited Incan ruins onhorseback, met amazing people, explored the oldest continuallyinhabited city in South America (Cuzco) and well, stayed there. Ifever there was a city that seemed to have all the qualities of a cityI could dream it was Cuzco. Cuzco is where the story really begins. I am not certain I am yetequipped to tell that story as I am still in it but I will be headingback to Quito tomorrow evening in order catch my fl...

Llamas! Or ALPACAS! And some burros in front. Cuzco, Peru

Jesus on the hill. He´s all lit up at night and very attention getting. Cuzco, Peru

Window in Cuzco

Streets of Cuzco

Quechua women and Alpaca´s in Cuzco

Flowers in the Cuzco market

San Pedro Cactus and Ayahuasca vine in the Cuzco city market

Wall cactus´, Cuzco, Peru

Rooftops of Cuzco, Peru

Streets of Cuzco. If ever there was a city that embodied all that I love about winding alleys, stone architecture and steps, it is Cuzco, Peru. I am in love.

Morgan cleans the dunes! We all went camping in the dunes on the night of the full moon and complete lunar eclipse. The next morning on our way back into the village (about an hour and a half hike) we cleaned up trash that blows into the dunes from the nearby landfill.

Marie-Claire cleans the dunes

Peru is a vast desert, who knew? Sand Dunes surrounding Huacachina, Peru

Local school kids doing a dance in Huacachina, Peru a little tiny oasis (literally) in the Peruvian sand dunes. The little kid wanted to dance with them and he was so cute

The only view out of a moto taxi

Pretty much the most amazing sunset ever, I almost had heat stroke trying to get up the mountain to see it but it was completely worth it. We were all vibrating with the earth while we watched the sun sink into the Pacific. Salinas, Peru

View from dunes above Salinas at sunset.

A very misty beach in Salinas, Peru.

The crew (before the addition of Patrick) Left to right: Me, Aviv, Marie-Claire, Joshua and Natalie. We all went wandering around in the desert and scaled sandy mountains. It was really hot.

Greeeeeeeeen tree in a very dry place. Near Mancora hot springs, Peru

One fine sunset, Mancora, Peru

Digging competition, Mancora, Peru

Peruvian desert bandlands landscape. Near Mancora, Peru

Morgan climbs mountains! These are the mountains surrounding the farm in Ecuador, pretty snazzy!

Aviv climbs mountains! Overlooking Tumianuma, Ecuador

The misty cactus covered hills of the Never Never Land Valley. Tumianuma, Ecuador

Aviv and I visiting the waterfall near Never Never Land, Ecuador. This is the water of life here so we´re feeling pretty good!

Paradise found in Ecuador, complete with coconut balls. Since my last upadate I have been residing on a farm called Never Never Land that indeed we found by following stars! It was dark when we began the hike up from the tiny town of Tumianuma but the stars were shining brightly and the crazy quantities of fireflies were going off like flashbulbs or tinkerbells all around us, magical moment indeed. We were lucklily guided by a group of lost boys and girls who were returning to the farm from a San Pedro ceremony quided by a local Shaman (San Pedro being a cactus that grows all over the hills here, similar in this use to Peyote.) A bunch of really good people they were and as I write now we are on our way again from Ecuador to Peru acompanied by two of my countrymen (and women) from Canada who we met that very night in that very way. Never Never Land was a fantastic place to spend two weeks and we are intent on returning for another two weeks after we make the pilgrimage to Machu Pichu a...