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PhillyB

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So for my archaeology/anthropology program I have to complete a field project of some sort over this summer in order to graduate on time and get to grad school within a year. This all would be fine and easy without a baby due on may 25, but part of being human is adapting to circumstances, and that's precisely the route I've taken.

I was originally going to be in Germany over the summer doing excavations on bronze-age tombs, but my application got rejected because the director didn't want to deal with a baby (as though I was going to be rolling her over onto a pile of bones to stay occupied while I dug for mummies in the next trench over... c'mon man.)

Anyway I've gotten an invitation from one of the (if not THE) top scholars in the Wari Empire region (a pre-Incan empire located in the southern extremities of Peru) to come down and do two months of archaeological work in the region. I'll be living with my wife and screaming poo machine in an apartment and walking back and forth to the worksites, alternately reconstructing Wari pottery and artifacts and sketching/photographing them, doing site survey/mapping in new areas of the desert, and doing some side work on an excavation in a valley up the road, in an actual Incan center.

This will all be in the middle of the spectacular desertscapes of southern Peru, so the Huddle will be overloaded with awesome pictures once more (as well as a few side trips to Bolivia and Chile, and possibly even Uruguay/Argentina) timed perfectly to fill the most boring time of the year for football fans.

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we just got crushed with baby shower stuff, so we should have our pick of items... i'm going down there two weeks before her (which is gonna suck, but it makes the most sense) to get everything arranged with the housing, get a routine going, get the important places mapped out, etc. i'll be bringing two duffel bags of baby poo with me so it'll be down here when she arrives. i have always been a minimalist when i travel, but i have a feeling those days are behind me.

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Totally EFFIN awesome, my life's dream was to be an astronaut, with archeologist as close second, sounds like you are getting an awesome opportunity!

NOW...

There once was a man from Peru, who dreamed he was eating his shoe.

He woke with a fright in the middle of the night, to fun that his dream had come true!

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we just got crushed with baby shower stuff, so we should have our pick of items... i'm going down there two weeks before her (which is gonna suck, but it makes the most sense) to get everything arranged with the housing, get a routine going, get the important places mapped out, etc. i'll be bringing two duffel bags of baby poo with me so it'll be down here when she arrives. i have always been a minimalist when i travel, but i have a feeling those days are behind me.

Curious question.

Why is wife and baby going?

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