I have been trying not to write this blog because it means I have relapsed, my cancer has come back, and I am undergoing treatment again. Although I wish it were not, all of those things are true. A few months ago I started getting these headaches that would start when I turned my head…
Hi all, I’m back to my travel pod blog for my summer travels. If you’d like to follow along use this address: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/eliswift4/3/tpod.html Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I haven´t blogged in awhile, and that´s okay because I have a lot of summer travel plans, so I expect to be blogging regularly about my adventures soon. I prefer to blog about happy times than cancer, so I am very much looking forward to seeing new places and having some time away to think,…
This month has been very busy, as I know most months are busy for most people. This new, modern, technological age where people are expected to do it all tires me out. I know, in particular, that it definitely affects my female friends who are trying to juggle a high paced career and the joys…
The beginning of this month marked two years since my breast cancer diagnosis. Coincidently, my diagnosis occurred on October 1st, the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is celebrated in both the United States and Chile with an onslaught of pink ribbons, pink posters, and pink T-shirts. (It´s a good thing that both…
Day Six: Birds, Birds, and More Birds The day started off rather slowly. We had an early morning wake-up as usual, but the river was really shallow so we stayed on the big boat a bit longer while we attempted to find the channels in the river. Vagno was needed on the…
Day Five: Cabin Fever Sets In We resumed our regular 5:30 AM wake-up today and the big question of the day was, “Will we see another jaguar?” The morning started off a little cool as the sun was behind some clouds. After a while whizzing around on the motorboat, it became clear there also…
Our morning passed rather leisurely since we weren´t in a rush to get out in the boat at daybreak, so I felt very rested for our day´s journey. Today, instead of coming back to the bigger boat for lunch, we had loaded a grill, our cook, chairs and tables into the smaller…
Day Three: A Cold Front Rolls Through When I rose bright and early at 5:30 this morning it seemed a good deal cooler than the past two days and there were some clouds on the horizon. I was also completely covered in mosquito bites that itched like the Dickens. So, I was not really…
Day One: We Board the Boat Douglas had arranged for someone to pick us up at our hotel at 9 AM to take us to the boat where he would be waiting. At about 8:45 a nice looking man and his son arrived in a car decorated on the outside with lots of animals…
The Luckiest Unlucky Girl 