To Speak of Piura

Well... there's not much to say about Piura... which is fitting since i don't have much time in which to say it.

But i thought that i would get a quick update up before i ran off again... and maybe when i come back i will have a legitimate update for the first time in... what... a month? Five weeks?

i haven't felt tremendous for most of the time that i've been in Piura... so i've come to know my hotel room pretty well. Lots of reading and John Piper-listening and writing, i suppose.

i return home in 16 days... so hopefully i can take about 8,500 pictures in that time.

Well... that's one way of saying i'm not going to come remotely close to my goal of 15,000 pictures this summer. That's what happens when you pretty much stop taking pictures halfway through a trip, i suppose, though.

Regardless... i'm at least going to try to take a few more meaningful pictures. Wake up, sam!

That said... i suppose i'll include a picture in this update... if only because the theory was that i would keep a blog that i could put pictures on... so if i'm not putting pictures on it, it kind of defeats the purpose.

So this is just another river picture from Choco. It's a little bit darker in mood than many of my other river pictures... but i guess i kind of like it.



And now i must do some packing... i am going to travel to the town of Paita this afternoon after eating lunch with an acquaintance from the states, and from Paita will either travel a few miles north to the town of Esmeralda or south to the town of Yasila (currently i'm leaning towards Yasila a little bit), from which i will hike about 30 or 45 minutes out of town, pitch my tent, and camp where the cliffs fall into the ocean. If i can't get decent/average/not terrible pictures there... then i may be a lost cause.

Very well... i wish you all the best.

And i am gladdened by such discussion of inconvenience.