Go Big Or Go Home: Round the World Edition We quit our jobs to go exploring before we are too old to hike up mountains and mountain bike down volcanoes. We may be a little crazy but we like it that way!

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Typical storage container for pisco called a botija. The origin of the name pisco came from the word Quechua. Translated to English it means bird and the body of this bird looks very similar to the botija.

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Visited a pisco distillery in Ica, Peru called El Catador that still makes it the old fashioned way. Here is the area where the grapes are stomped with bare feet.then pressed.

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To ferment the pisco it was poured into a giant vat, sealed with plaster then boiled using a wood oven.

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