Peru in Video

Hola Me Amigas y Amigos!

Enjoy these short videos that chronologically capture and highlight my adventure in Peru while I sift through my millions of photos that I'll eventually use to decorate the words--when I find them--to capture the epiphanies and wonders I experienced on my pilgrimage to Machu Picchu. I still can't believe I'm not in South America anymore. I am still speaking Spanish. Thank god I am in Bushwick.

Suerte!

Jennifer x



Llama Path Red Army Starts the Pilgrimage


Atop the Nipple of Dead Woman's Pass


Breathtaking Intipata


Feasts in Tents


A Moment of Silence for Machu y Wayna Picchu...


Gringo Musica in Aguas Calientes


Peruvian P(Up)s


MMMMMMaracuya...


We can do ANYTHING

Changing Lanes with Funny Names

For the last 3 months I have lived off Bogus Basin Road... a name that was strange and funny to me the first time I heard it. It became common place as I grew to know its stretches and bends.

Now, I don't know where I am.

The Shakespearience tour 2010 is OVER?

Kind of: the road is changing again.

My first love and I used to joke that a good Wheel of Fortune "Before and After" would be:
Changing Nathan Lanes ... or was it Changing Nathan Lane?

I look at the signs around me in the airport for a joke--this one says I am in Denver. But in 15 minutes I will be on another plane that whirls me onto streets that don't need signs to scream New York City.

After driving 7,158.8 miles on the road in the last 10 weeks, I am used to 5 hour rides taking me to Sandpoint, or Twin Falls and back, making jokes and jotting down funny road signs and shop puns along the way:

• The Human Bean
• Lardo Grill
• ROBIDEAUX MOTORS???
  

• Post Office Creek
• Chicken Dinner Rd
• True Blood Ld
• K BAR T Ln
• Divide Pass
• Happy Day Blvd
• Bodystun Ln
• Gun Club Rd
• Pot Hole Rd
• Fort Misery Rd
• NO KID --it was a street name but no Rd, St, Ln, Ave assigned
  
• Lois Ln
• Anne Antelope Ave
• Bitter Rd
• Humanity Ln
• Glascock Rd
• Mossy Cup Dr
• Shoepeg Rd
• Sagle
• Freezeout Rd
  
• Slickpoo Rd
• Last Chance Rd

Now, millions of jokes and hours and weeks and years later, I find it hard to believe that this journey will be taking me to New York--the city I left 3 long months ago! It's even harder to believe that another 7 hours will land me in Peru--the first leg of my journey to achieve a dream: to hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu with my sweetheart. I don't think it is possible to be any happier than to be in this moment with all the wonderful memories and moments and choices and passions that led me here.


Over the last 10 weeks, I had the opportunity to warm up my instrument at least once a day for 90 performances of Othello. No job has brought me more happiness. I feel radiant, confident, healthy. I know my lungs are ready to handle the altitudes of Cuzco! My heart and imagination, more ready to be reunited with love.

I DO know where I am: exactly where I should be--in flux.

This merging road is the only road I care to follow--one that will change into something new and foreign, but will return again to the people and places I love. I see Tyler in less than 24 hours in another hemisphere.


And I return to Boise this summer to teach for ISF. My favorite road is this one that I keep following, laughing, spinning, wheezing, wandering, wondering, and hallooing down...

I'll send a postcard as usual,

Jennifer x

Othello Week 10

GRRRR....

...this was NOT the best week to lose my camera! We played to some of the most awesome schools this week--actually all are wonderful, but I can't possibly spotlight every single one...

Time, distraction, misplaced cameras, the need to find a bathroom: all these factors are part of the chance that captures only a fraction of the 90 schools we have visited in the last 10 weeks.

YOU ARE ALL INSPIRATIONS TO US.

However, in this, our final week of tour, I managed to capture Riverglen Jr High and Mountain Home Jr High before I lost my camera:

Castmember, Sarah gets the honor of posing with
Riverglen Jr High student and ISF Facebook fan, Calista!

Some Riverglen Grizzlies pose for a photo for the blog!

Castmember, Dakotah takes apart the set for some
Mountain Home Jr High Tiger fans

And then.... a blank, my lord...

till Friday at Mountain Home High, when I found my camera--or rather when Katie Mueller found my camera backstage hiding in the sound booth! Aiyeeee!!!!!

Thanks for coming to our last show, Katie! xo
Now we're off to unload our set for the last time.
Thank you ISF Shakespearience for a tour we'll never forget!

Cast of Othello from left, clockwise: David Ketchum (Cassio/Brabantio), Luke Massengill (Iago), Dakotah Brown (Othello), Rod Wolfe (Roderigo), Sarah Gardner (Desdemona), Jennifer Robideau (Emilia/Montano/Duke of Venice), and Infrared Bijounee (the jealousy monster)

Othello Week 9 Pt 3!

So many parts to this endless week... Thank you for helping us load out on our last day of this long week, Sandpoint Charter High gentlemen! Now the van heads back to Boise... well most of us...

It's Friday: Sandpoint Charter School

It's Friday: The door finally breaks on us...and we fix it with zip ties and scotch tape like Ramona Quimby...uh oh, are you old enough to know Ramona???

This entry comes so late because I lost my camera at the beginning of week 10! My pictures from the end of week 9 were on that round of "film"--can we call digital photo memory film? I still do.... yes, I remember film. I used to develop it and have it developed. I remember slides. I remember anticipating those 3 agonizing days where the photo lab would know the secrets of my adventures before I did... and then the miraculous came: ONE HOUR PHOTO.

For the revolutionary, short attention, impatient generation--the generation of which I am on the cusp--almost ignorant--I think I sent my first email when I was 14. Yes, when I was growing up:

• I learned to type on a typewriter.
• The Smurfs were NOT in syndication
• A child movie ticket was $3.50
• School Lunch was $0.45
• Car phones were built INTO the car and you only had one if you were a character on Magnum PI
• I could have auditioned for Saved by the Bell...

But enough of my generation.... back to yours! Thanks for letting me traverse the divide, Fate!

Stay tuned for the last post: Week 10, Mountain Home Jr High, Mountain Home High, and my good bye!

Now, I get on a plane....

xo Jennifer and Infrared