Peru

Love Letters to Lima

March 26, 2015 Dear Lima, I’ve only just arrived and already I love you. Our hostel in the Miraflores neighborhood is just blocks from the park on the cliff. We watched the setting sun, the surfers, the scotty dogs, the runners, the children. I was entranced.  Our first meal was at Alma Zen, an organic, […]

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Iquitos is a Miserable City

  Iquitos is a miserable city.  The constant droning buzzing roaring of mototaxis pollutes the city air as much as their noxious exhaust. If the mototaxis aren’t annoying, the insistent salesmen will be. We couldn’t walk more than a few steps before another guy would attach himself to us, asking us where we were from

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Peru’s Desert Coast

Finding good, affordable food every day, multiple times a day, consumes so much of my time. For the past couple of weeks, we’ve only been staying at a place for 1-2 nights and our accommodations haven’t had a kitchen I could use. As a result, we’ve been eating all of our meals out. Enough!  Tonight, we

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Colca Canyon Adventure

And just like that, we were standing at the town square in Cabanaconde watching our tour group drive away. Martin and I looked at each other. What did we just do? Stunned and excited, I suddenly realized how much I had grown in confidence since the beginning of our travel adventure nine months ago. Despite

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