Saturday, June 9, 2007
Today, Hollie and I climbed aboard a little plane with bags full of yummy fish and fried chinese food and proceeded to fall promptly asleep. When I next woke up, we were in the air, 1/4 of the way to our destination of Iquitos, Peru. We made it to Iquitos and managed to wake up, get our bags, and go outside where our driver Don Marcial was wating for us with a sign that was not quite as big as Omar's sign (our taxi driver in Lima), but we'll forgive him. As we travelled through central Iquitos to the house where we will be staying, Don Marcial serenaded me with verses from "En Mi Viejo San Juan"-- Javier Solis joined me as a little girl growing up in Puerto Rico to Don Marcial, a driver in Iquitos who has never left his city.
Don Marcial also recited verses of poetry praising the Amazon as he pointed it out at the distance, obscured in the evening darkness. "Wow, that's beautiful!" I exclaimed, thinking about how being this close to the Amazons might be the best part of the trip to Iquitos (sorry Van Voorhis!).
But the best suprise came later, when Hollie and I met our housemate who gave us the key... to the wireless internet... We have the internet? Awesome! We came close to surviving ten whole hours without it...
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