Author Archives: Bob Pierce, Jr.

Peru 2025

Robert just returned from 4 weeks in the high Andes in Peru. He recommends it. A month of telecommuting and hiking in the mountains with his brother Mike and their friend Leszek Kotzian.

As usual, the food, landscape, climate and people of Peru were excellent.

We spent a week in Cajamarca. A week in Huaraz. And two weeks in Chiquian, where Robert and Leszek stayed for 12 days. A perfect size town at the foot of some of the world’s highest mountains. And the EXCELLENT Casa de los Wailtos in made us feel very comfortable.

Go there!

The Puget Sound is Big

The Pierce family recently made their long-awaited trip to the Puget Sound. Robert has been hearing lots about it since he picked up his little sailing hobby, so he was happy to finally check it out. One of the many things that have been going on up there for the last 10 years or so is the Race to Alaska boat race, which starts in Port Townsend and ends in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Robert has mentioned to a few friends how large an area of water the Puget Sound is and how much sailing opportunity it provides. It is hard to describe.

The below photo was taken by Robert from the top of Mt. Erie on Fidalgo Island. It shows a fairly large body of water that is a part of the Puget Sound. It looks pretty big, but given the scale of things, it is proportionately very small.

To demonstrate, looking the below map, you will see a small red dot. EVERYTHING you see in the above photograph is covered by that red dot.

The yellow line is the course of the Race to Alaska.