Welcome to the travels of Carol and Jim.
We'd like to share our perspective of the world with you.
It is often off-center and usually irreverent. The letters were written as a way for us to keep details of the trip fresh, but eventually started working their way to friends and family and became unwieldy to manage. Many of the letters have been lost along the way before I was convinced to organize them into this blog by my daughter.
The trips are archived into separate units with each date representing a trip and all the letters from that trip are included in the folder itself. They all read top down.
Enjoy, and always remember to live large and prosper
,
Carol and Jim

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

South America January to August 1991

All the letters posted here under this date are from our extended trip to South America. Carol is a Spanish teacher who received a Sabbatical to Study and travel in S.A. I took unpaid leave and basically played the Gigolo, which was a pretty cool gig.
Since this was before what has become the de facto method of communicating, to wit, email, whenever we could find computer centers with Macintosh computers, I would write, save it to a floppy, print out one copy, go to a "copy center," and finally mail out 15 copies which were then distributed to family and friends.
There was so much to say, but limited time and resources. Not like carrying my laptop and writing when each night.
The letters read from top to bottom in this dated post. The first letter below is the first letter we sent.

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