December 2022: "The Georges in Peru"

Family picture from the scenic lookout above La Punta (Ben, Mary Beth, Allen, Paul and Mia)

As we finish this year 2022, we want to wish you a (belated) Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year! 

We haven't written much because our excitement/free time ratio has been very low.  That changed last week when the president of Peru announced he was dissolving congress and congress immediately impeached him.  (kind of like highschoolers breaking up:  "You can't dump me!  I'm dumping you!") Congress won out.  His vice-president, became Peru's first female president with full powers of the office.  There have been escalating protests and riots since then.  Yesterday, on my (Allen's) way home from Mollendo, the nearest larger city, I came upon a line of sto