This will be the place in which, when convenient, i will occasionally leave a few thoughts or impressions or plans that come to me as i spend the next three months of my life backpacking in Peru. Perhaps a few things that i think i learn will find their way here, perhaps a few pictures, perhaps a few anecdotes of life in the Andes, perhaps some Quechua... those who are persistent enough to follow this even loosely i applaud. Hopefully it will not be a waste of your time.
i shall open with a brief overview of the trip:
i depart Oklahoma City on Monday morning, to arrive in Lima late Monday night. i then plan to travel by bus to the town of Aplao in southern Peru via Arequipa. i will spend an indefinite amount of time in Aplao exploring the small nearby mountains and adjusting to the local culture before continuing on to... somewhere else, most likely the town of Cabanaconde.
My purpose in undertaking this trip is primarily to develop my photographic portfolio. i will be going to places of great cultural, geographical, and aesthetic interest, and i will seek to first understand and appreciate these places myself, and then to try to translate this understanding into photographs that are honest, relevant, and--when appropriate--aesthetically beautiful.
i am not calling this trip a mission trip. i am, however a follower of Christ... and so while i am not going with an agenda or a specific strategy of ministry, my attitude is that my witness is not fundamentally what i do, but that it is fundamentally who i am. And so as a result, i will be seeking opportunities to speak of the frailty of man and the death and resurrection of Christ and the glory of God, however the occupational purpose of this trip is photographic in nature.
i close with a picture of the village of Choco, one of my eventual destinations, from a short distance up the Choco River, taken during the month that i lived there in 2006--
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