Change is in the Air

So, this blog was formerly titled "Cornell Bodell" to chronicle the time I spent in Ithaca, New York
last summer studying Chinese at Cornell University. As a quick review of those blog posts below will
show, that blog did not go so well mostly because of a lack of time for maintenance.

Now, though, I have rechristened the blog as "Bodell & Feist in Perú." I married my best friend this
past December with the plan to delay our honeymoon until this summer. I have always wanted to go to
Perú and am grateful to Joe for being so agreeable to my Wanderlust. So, we are currently planning
to depart for the land of the Incas on July 26th and spend about two weeks there. We will start in
Lima and wind our way through Cuzco, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Pisac, Puno, Lake Titicaca and
the floating Uros islands, Juliaca, and back to Lima.

We are so excited and a little nervous. I am trying to brush up on my Spanish--though, considering
I was trained in castellano and spent time in Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Aragón, y Cataluña,
I am not sure all of that will necessarily get me through the Quechua and Aymara influenced linguistic
mix of Perú.

Anyway, we are going to use this blog to document our preparation for and experience in Perú.
Stay tuned!