Lake Titicaca, Peru
27 March 10: A couple of photos of Lake Titicaca in Peru, from January's trip. Peru was amazing, like stepping into one of the National Geographic Magazines around our house from childhood. Those magazines were always full of amazing images, and they felt so alien to the suburban Mid West. And substantial, too. The word 'magazine' wasn't enough to describe something with such incredible places/photos/stories inside. 'People' was a magazine. National Geographic was a kind of magic, a cousin of voodoo, a solid thing of art in thick shiny paper. When you had a National Geographic in your hands, you were holding something that came directly from outside your world, or at least outside my world: to a ten-year-old who's annual vacation was a station wagon road trip to Wisconsin, a National Geographic magazine was extraordinarily enticing. I felt the same about way about Peru, too...