I’ve spent the last month in the USA, and I’m headed back to Buenos Aires in a couple of weeks. In the last week there was a 5.9-rated earthquake in Virginia, and much-hyped hurricane Irene hit the northern east coast. Though much of the potential damage was averted largely due to the earthquake[...]
Posts Tagged ‘risk’
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 [[...]
