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Peru’s Shutdown On the evening of Sunday, March 15th, just hours after reaching Máncora on the far Northern coast of Peru, the Peruvian President declared a national state of emergency in response to the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19. Peru enacted 15 days of military-enforced, nationwide…
If someone had told me Charlie and I would be spending the last weekend of 2019 with an indigenous family on a remote island in Lake Titicaca, there’s no way I would have believed it. But that’s exactly what we did. Two days after Christmas,…
Since stepping off the plane nearly two months ago, Peru has been an experience in nonstop sensory overload. From brighter colors to spicier flavors to manic drivers, the whole country seems to have the volume turned up. The air is saturated with the sounds of…
And just like that, the first leg of our South American journey is coming to a close. I’m trying not to be too sentimental about it – I know there’s a lot of trip left – but I don’t like the idea of any of…
I woke up on this Monday morning with two words on my mind: Holy. Crap. First of all, it’s dumping snow outside despite being 75 degrees yesterday (and I’m not mad about it). Secondly, tomorrow is my 37th birthday (um, what?)… And lastly, my head…