Well, another holiday has come and gone here in Lima. Obviously, Peruvians don’t celebrate this American holiday. So, while you in the states were trying to make your way through crowded grocery stores with piles of humongous turkeys and can after can of slimy cranberry sauce, we were intrepidly trying to find things like cream [...]
I woke up this morning from a very vivid dream that our local supermarket, Wong had formed a partnership with H-E-B in Texas. As I was walking through the store I came across a whole shelf of “Dr. B” (their Dr Pepper knock off). I was so excited… then, in my dream, I woke up [...]
It’s been a long long time coming… but our whole team is here together ! Late on Tuesday night the Fletchers flew into the hazy skies of Lima, greeted by the usual damp and dark but always dusty city. The advantage of the always late arriving Continental Flight 590 from Houston is that after passing [...]
Well… who’d a thunk that they’d celebrate Halloween in Peru? Not me. Well, sure enough, they do. Actually, I think the whole thing is pretty much straight up imported. Nonetheless, the streets were full of little kids in all kinds of costumes. We all got together and made the rounds together. Pretty much the only [...]
