The Lost Girls

Making a Run for the Border

LAOS | Wednesday, 14 Feb 2007 | Views [1444]

ADP: After experiencing life at a languorous pace for nearly two weeks in Laos, Jen and I procrastinated as long as we could in booking the taxis, tuk-tuks, buses and plane flights we’d need to meet up with our friend Beth several hundred miles south ... Read more >

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All Roads Lead to Mellow Yellow

BRAZIL | Tuesday, 19 Sep 2006 | Views [1336] | Comments [1]

Most of the time on trips like ours, bad luck and bumps in the road are simply a matter of chance. But sometimes life will throw out so many signs pointing in one direction, and for better or worse, we’d be fools not to follow them. Such was the case ... Read more >

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Stranded in Colca Canyon, Peru!

PERU | Wednesday, 16 Aug 2006 | Views [6199]

We took a bumpy, three-hour bus ride from Arequipas, a white-washed city with a Spanish-colonial vibe, to the dusty, desert-like Colca Canyon. The big draw? To spot condors up close. To see the world’s largest bird, we needed to get to Cruz del Condor, ... Read more >

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Dodging the (blanket) fuzz

PERU | Wednesday, 16 Aug 2006 | Views [1128]

Puno, the Peruvian gateway to Lake Titicaca, turned out to be something of a slum with prisonlike, unheated accommodations, so we opted not to stay there for another night and instead take a five hour bus directly to infinitely more gorgeous “White ... Read more >

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Have TP, Will Travel

PERU | Monday, 31 Jul 2006 | Views [680]

Travel has a way of bringing you back to the very basics of life—food, shelter, warmth and um, bodily functions. The sad fact is, Holly, Jen and I have spent far more time discussing the bathroom and what goes on inside of it than any other topic, and ... Read more >

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