Hello friends, and welcome back to my travel blog.
If you're new to my blog, you can find previous trips under http://kareninperu.blogspot.com. I can't seem to transfer the old blog to my new gmail address, so I added a "2", and this should work just fine.
It's hard for me to even wrap my head around my plans for the summer, but they're coming at me fast and furious. I'll be leaving tomorrow (Monday July 7th) for La Paz, Bolivia to begin my thesis research. I'll be exploring important sites of the Tiwanaku polity, a pre-Inka culture who lived in the area around Lake Titicaca during the first milleneum AD. After just a few days in Bolivia, I'll head over to Peru, and the rest of my time will be spent there, gathering the bulk of my research samples for stable isotope analysis and working on getting permits to bring them home.
It's freezing in La Paz right now - high temperatures have been in the mid-40s (F) with lows in the mid 20s every night. One thing that I've found is that you can get some great deals on winter wear in California this time of year! Today's my big packing day. I just hope I remember everything!
I'll keep you all posted about my adventures as I travel. This time, I'll mostly be in or around cities, so hopefully the posting will be fairly constant.
I hope you are all having a great summer! I'll miss you while I'm away, but I'll be back in mid-August!
Wish me luck (please).
Karen
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