Hi All. Well, I am leaving for Peru tomorrow. I will be there a week. It is entirely a work trip. I am visiting one of the Barrick mines in northern Peru called Lagunas Norte to help implement a new project management tool. If I am lucky, I will have some time a week from tonight (a friday) afternoon and evening to see something in the Lima Area. Otherwise, I am going to be at a "Camp" at 12,000 feet or so and working. The camp is not a tent. Its habitized containers. There is a mess hall and perhaps a recreation area. I am taking my harmonica so maybe I'll get a chance to share some American folk music.
Of note, they've given me a pretty thorough physical and inoculated me against all sorts of dread diseases including Typhoid, yellow fever, and malaria. A bunch of routine things as well.
On the positive side, I get to fly business class since it is an international trip. Woo hoo!
Here is a video about the mine. It's in Spanish but even if you don't speak the language you can get an idea of just how spectacular a place the Andes are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgSiCT1Tdw
I'll try to provide regular updates and pictures.
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