Posts Tagged ‘Andes’

August 14th, 2009 - 2:29 am § in Peru

For the Best Fruit, You Gotta Go Out on a Limb

One of the strangest (and sometimes dangerous) things that happens to me when I travel is that, as soon as I overcome the fear of releasing the comforts of home and board the plane, I magically lose all inhibitions.   On my first volunteer trip, to East Africa in 2007, I was newly engaged to be [[...]

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August 3rd, 2009 - 8:49 am § in Doing, Peru, Social Entrepreneurship, Volunteer

Where We Pull Apart, We Bind Together

Rolling in on the overnight bus last night, I wiped the glass on the sopping wet window to see a mamacha seated on a curb, and I couldn’t help but smile. I’d been gone from the Central Andean town of Ayacucho for about a week, and I had already begun to miss seeing the [...][...]

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