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Footsteps and thoughts from the Inca Trail

No one really knows why Machu Picchu exists. It may have been built as a resort for Incan royalty or as a retreat specifically for the king. It may have been a holy place. Historians do believe, no...

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Completing the tough road to Machu Picchu

Read part one about our trek to Machu Picchu. On day three we awoke to gray skies and low clouds but our spirits were high because our hardest day was behind us. Day three was what our guide called...

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Updates, rickshaw run, and travel fits and starts

It is hard for me to believe that we left Oregon five months ago. Five months. Where has the time gone? My brain is overwhelmed by all that I have already seen and done and I know that it will take...

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A visit to Peru’s Amazon Jungle

The first thing I noticed when I stepped off the plane in Puerto Maldonado, a small Peruvian jungle town a stone’s throw away from both Bolivia and Brazil, was the oppressive, suffocating heat. ‘Oh...

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A little story about a little sloth

On our third day in the Amazon we boarded a tiny wooden boat and puttered along a small, muddy tributary of the Rio Madre de Dios. We’d set out to go fishing with tree branch poles and to do a little...

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Our incredible weekend with monkeys

Puerto Maldonado, Peru is no place to write home about. It’s booming, as far as jungle towns go, with a frenzy of rickshaws and motorcycles zooming and beeping through the rutted, dusty streets. Brian...

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El Chalten, Argentina in pictures: my new favorite place on earth

There is a tiny town in Argentina’s Patagonia region called El Chalten and it is my new favorite place on earth. The village of El Chalten The village of El Chalten was founded in 1985 (!) and has a...

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Touring Rio de Janeiro’s national park (’cause, yeah, they have one)

As our last few days in South America came to a close, Brian and I found ourselves in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We’d never intended to go to Brazil but flights from Rio to India, where I was flying for...

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Tips for surviving South American bus rides

When I think back on our time in South America I don’t automatically think about volunteering in Ecuador or visiting the Galapagos Islands or even hiking the Inca Trail. The first thing I think about...

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About this OM symbol

Brian and I were backpacking in Torres del Paine National Park, a pristine and stunning wilderness area in Chile’s Patagonia region. Friends had flown in from the U.S. to join us. We were having a...

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