Friday, January 29, 2010

from Jennifer Blankenship (Mt. Olive Arkansas)

The view from Cajamarca: tight waistbands and tall straw hats, busy fingers spinning wool on a string, tiny donkeys carrying burdensome loads of cut alfalfa, wash water running down dirt drains by the road, smelly livestock market all day Monday, tiny Peruvian infants wrapped over colorful shoulders, dusty plastic shoes made from old tires, tall mountain peeks dotted with terraced fields, and bumpy vans crammed with gringos. Tired gringos.

Jennifer

1 comment:

malarkey said...

Good description Jennifer. I am in Cajamarca for most of Feb. Can't say I have seen many gringos but the rest is pretty accurate. Good wishes. Maybe see you around? Alan Malarkey