travel
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From Floating Islands to the White City: the Wonders of Lake Titicaca and Arequipa
This one takes the cake for weirdest Thanksgiving ever. Obviously, it doesn’t even feel like it, as we’re in a country that doesn’t even celebrate. Anyway. I slept til almost 5:00 am today. It gets light here super early. We… Continue reading
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Peru Rail: A Ride Through the Andes
It’s train ride day! We FINALLY get to take the amazing Peru Rail Lake Titicaca train to Puno! We woke up at a MUCH more reasonable hour today, something like 5:00 am. We still had to leave the hotel by… Continue reading
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Lake Humantay: A Glacial Jewel in the Andes
Ahhhh, a decent night of sleep! Finally! And Matt woke up, having slept all night too, not having to run to the bathroom… He seems to be feeling better. We didn’t jump out of bed super early, but we headed… Continue reading
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Our Peru Adventure Continues: Awe-Struck by Machu Picchu
Ugh. Apparently I can’t sleep at altitude for shit. And there were people in and out of the hotel at all hours of the night – I guess we’ll be the ones doing that next week, so I can’t complain… Continue reading
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We’re off to Peru. First Stop – Cusco!
EEEEK! We’re going to Peru! I woke up stupid early today, of course. I had 20,000,000 things on the brain and could NOT calm down enough to go back to sleep. Funny enough, Matt got up shortly after I did. … Continue reading
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Penitente Canyon
We went camping with some friends at Penitente Canyon on the suggestion of one of them. The idea was to go somewhere with no cell service, where we could actually disconnect from the world and enjoy the little things for… Continue reading
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El Yunque: Puerto Rico’s Rain Forest
We went to El Yunque today! We woke up at a reasonable hour and got out the door without wasting too much time. Thankfully, the drive wasn’t crazy, and we arrived at the park fairly quickly. We decided to just… Continue reading
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Camuy River National Park and Old San Juan
I woke up stupid early this morning… Ugh. I guess I got a sunrise time lapse, so there was that…. Matt got up at a reasonable hour, and we made some breakfast – the last of the loaf of bread… Continue reading
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Cabo Rojo, PR
We didn’t sleep too late this morning (okay, not late at all), and over coffee and a papaya for breakfast decided we should go down to Cabo Rojo for the day. We got our stuff together and headed out. We… Continue reading
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Chillin’ Out in Rincón!
We talked last night about what we wanted to do the next couple of days. We (okay, I) had twenty million ideas of what to do and where to go, but as we thought about it, we realized we’re tired… Continue reading
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