Reminiscing about Peru

Today I walked into my professor's office to chat with her about some simulations I'm doing (more to come about that in a later post), and on her desktop was a picture of her family at Macchu Picchu. I said, "Hey, I have that same picture!" She gave me a creeped-out look and asked "you have this picture?" Anyways, once I reassured her that I wasn't a creepy stalker, we got to chatting about our respective recent trips to that fine country, and interestingly we both liked Arequipa the best - it's really a beautiful city, and I highly recommend it. (By the way, the picture at the top of the blog isn't Stanford - it's actually a convent in Arequipa).

So tonight I looked back at some of my pictures from Cruz del Condor, near Arequipa, and I thought I'd post a pretty neat video that I got while we were there ("we" is me and Sammy, btw). I'll admit it's a little nauseating to watch, but I think it does kinda capture the feeling of excitement we got when we were trying to watch all these condors flying around at the same time. I hope that I get to go back someday, and I hope those condors will still be there...