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July 2, 2009
Off to San Pedro de Casta, Peru
This one in a series of articles about taking a service vacation to Peru, coordinated by Globe Aware.
Tonight we make final preparations for tomorrow's flight to Peru. If you haven't read, Heidi and I are spending a week in the Andean village of San Pedro de Casta, Peru on a service vacation. Kids are staying at home with their grandparents, who arrived earlier this week.
We probably haven't spent enough time preparing (Spanish vocabulary is still only a handful of words), but we've got the most critical stuff lined up.
Globe Aware, the organization coordinating the trip, has been excellent. They've provided good information about what to expect for travel, accommodations, food, and more. As we've had questions they've been great about getting back to us. All-in-all, they've done a great job at helping us know enough to be comfortable about going to a distant land and living among strangers-to-become-friends for a week.
A few weeks back the coordinator asked if we would transport some internet routers for boosting network signals, but it fell through as they were on backorder. I've been asked to take a look at the school and the computers and provide some feedback on getting a network and internet connection there.
Here's the page on the San Pedro trip, with a video and photos from previous groups.
Very excited, a little bit nervous....
Posted by mike at July 2, 2009 5:09 PM