Christmas Eve is spent on a roof top. This time the Northern Peruvian City of Harauz. These roof tops are pretty much, much of a…
neilcoppenJanuary 1, 2008
Buses I have seen many the last few days, climbing from Cusco ( Memories of Mrs Piccua -unreal- swathed in her ancient mists) toward Lima.…
neilcoppenDecember 26, 2007
Maria grew up on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the town of Copacabana.Of course Maria would have far preferred to be in school, but…
neilcoppenDecember 25, 2007
Funny morning, stepped out of my hostel room only to be nearly trampled by two deranged llamas bolting down the cobbled streets, one frisky for…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
A visit to the Patosi Silver Mines in Bolivia, to get an alternative view of the state of things, proves both frightening and enlightening. A…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
If not for the festive folk music, phycadellic salt pans, flamingo infested lakes, pits of sulphurous belching earth, I´d say im fond of Bolivia for…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
To my unborn nephew/niece- but an inkling in your apache mammas belly.Whatever being you be- for at this point biology has not yet markated you…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
Sunday morning and I sit on a bench in La-Paz , watch a Plaza market rising. Ignoring the persistence of shoe shine boys ( and…
neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007
He did not flinch in bidding Paris his hometown adieu: far too petite, too pretentious to contain his irrepressibly itchy feet. At twenty ”“two he…
neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007