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Lake Titicaca
Peru: Lake Titicaca August 1-2, 2009 Puno We had a seven and a half hour bus ride to Puno. We alternated between dozing and listening to David Sedaris. Although we were still at a high altitude, we were on a sort of plateau with fields that were used for grazing animals. It was slightly surreal …
Machu Picchu
Peru: Machu Picchu July 30-31, 2009 Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu Town) Our expensive train ride to Aguas Calientes was only about one and half hours long. The train descended from the cool altitude of Ollantaytambo into the jungle-like cloud forest. The three-thousand foot drop in elevation was evident in the warmth and the vegetation. Scrubby …
Peru Epilogue
Peru: Epilogue August, 2009 “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” –Lin Yutang Raleigh, NC On the last leg of our flight, from Miami to Raleigh, there was a group of rather large people with bright blue T-shirts proclaiming the …
Lima Peru
Peru: Lima July 26-27, 2009 Airport Taxis We only had a few hours of sleep on the plane because the flight attendants kept waking us to feed us and make us fill out immigration forms. It was in this tired state that we had to face the first nuisance of foreign travel: airport taxis. Most …
SERA
SERA’S FAVORITE RECIPES MAIN MEALS Beef and Noodles Beef Stew Chili Exploded Peppers German Hot Potato Salad Ham and Lentil Soup Ham Bone Soup Hunter’s Style Chicken w/ Bow Tie Noodles Meatloaf Pineapple Chicken Rice Scalloped Potatoes and Ham Sloppy Joes Sera’s Spaghetti Sauce Thai Chicken Fettuccini SIDES Asparagus Fettuccini Baked Macaroni & Cheese w/ …
Latin American Travel Photos
Travels in Panama and Costa Rica July 2007 Panama Costa Rica Zac and I have had more than our fair share of travels in foreign countries, but this trip seemed different. It was the first time that it really felt like a vacation in the traditional sense—an escape from the humdrum routine of life as …
FUTURE SCHOOL March 2005
FUTURE SCHOOL March 2005 For the next year, we will be teaching at Future English School. It’s a private language school, so anyone who wants to learn English and can pay a lot of money, comes to our school. Before we started teaching, we had two days of training along with the other new teachers. …
Zachary Arcaro Portfolio
Zachary Arcaro ~ Portfolio I have worked with spatial information for many years, both as an undergraduate at Ohio State University and as a master’s student at North Carolina State University. I have become familiar with several leading software packages and am well versed in the fundamentals of GIS and remote sensing. This website is …
LiDAR
Zachary Arcaro ~ Portfolio Thesis As I am currently working on my thesis project, I have included this report from a related pilot project as it introduces most of the major themes contained in my thesis. Home ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Evaluating the Use of LIDAR Multiple Return Data to Characterize Forest Canopy Structure in …
Travels in Peru July
Travels in Peru July-August 2009 Lima Cusco & Sacred Valley Machu Picchu Puno & Lake Titicaca Arequipa Pisco Callao (Lima) Epilogue PROLOGUE We originally intended to go to Turkey, since we hadn’t yet been to that part of the world. Airfare turned out to be quite expensive, so I looked to South …