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La Luna de Miel Larga
Chris and Aviva's travels through South America and beyond
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Chris and Aviva got married in September of 2007 and immediately abandoned everything they know to move to Cuzco, Peru for a little over a year. Aviva is conducting her fieldwork towards her PhD in anthropology and Chris is bumming around shooting some short films and trying to look busy.
Apurimac Rafting
July 4th, 2008 by ChrisHere’s a little video of our time on the Apurimac River near Cusco. We arranged to have a 4 day private trip, rowing our own boats. My dad Joe and stepmom Jane had arrived in Cusco a few days before, so it was just the four of us and four guides. This was definitely the biggest water any of us had run, and the rating system seems a bit looser down here, so the 5+ rapids we ran would have definitely been 6’s in the States (the standard rating scale for rapids is 1-6 from least to most difficult/dangerous). The video looks a lot more tame than it really was, because this was really powerful water. Several of the rapids the guides wouldn’t let us, or anyone else, run because of the danger involved, but we did convince the head guide to let us run Toothache with him, a difficult 5+, which Aviva managed to do part of standing on her head as you can see at the beginning of the video. All in all it was a fantastic trip and we had a great time, and the owner/head guide wants me to come back and guide for them later this season as they’re really busy, so there might be more videos in the future.
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
One of the lines of a song playing in the video was “one man cries while another man sings”
While for many there would be cries of fear,
I could feel the song of your sprits as you traveled the God Who Speaks…
(of course, a little fear-and a great respect for the river (and God) is wise, too. LOL!)
Thanks for sharing your adventures!!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Certainly a birthday to remember for a lifetime! I do not understand anyone putting themselves into such a hazardous and arduous situation. I almost lost the video and just happened to find Christine’s message in my deleted file. Cannot comprehend some of my computer’s actions. So.. I will be 86 years old next month. Happy I can peruse other folks challenging themselves as I sit at home before breakfast. So unbelievable!! Left me in tears and feel rather seasick.