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The Year of Magical Traveling: And so we come to the end
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Sunday, September 16, 2012. And so we come to the end. The staff of Manos Amigas took us out for a goodbye lunch at everyone’s favorite place - La Pollera, where else? Which was really kind and unexpected. But otherwise. coming home has been hard. Starting with the bluster and belligerence ...I fee...
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The Year of Magical Traveling: January 2012
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Monday, January 30, 2012. We were in the middle of the jungle, so lush and green and humid and hot, with a completely different color palette and weather pattern than we are used to in Lima. Vines grew and curled around everything, creating funky shapes. We hiked out to. La Garganta del Diablo.
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The Year of Magical Traveling: December 2011
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Saturday, December 31, 2011. La capacitación, part III – flashbacks to 8th grade gym. The final day of the. Was focused more on logistical details and team-building between the artisans themselves, as well as between the artisans and the staff of Manos Amigas. Handing out encuestas at the door.
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The Year of Magical Traveling: April 2012
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The champion of moxie. 8220;Something special is coming up; you’ll definitely want to have your camera out,” said the waiter on the train. We had just spent the day at Machu Picchu. We obligingly got out our camera and continued staring out the window. On the wooden tray!
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The Year of Magical Traveling: July 2012
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Monday, July 30, 2012. Sunday afternoons on the malecón. One of our standard Sunday afternoon activities is to walk along the malecón. The walk along the cliffside parks overlooking the ocean. It takes us about an hour to leisurely make our way south to where the parapentes. Take off and land.
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The Year of Magical Traveling: August 2012
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Monday, August 27, 2012. Brushes with the surreal. Even the public bathrooms in Arequipa were interesting, featuring art and old skylights. Carrying a giant handmade candle to the church in Yanque to put alongside the statue of the Virgen. Getting the statue ready inside the church. As previously m...
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The Year of Magical Traveling: November 2011
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. The other day we walked down to the beach. Literally. As I've mentioned before. We walked down several hundred steps to check out the beach and watch the surfers. But check it out – there is the figure running. We were in downtown Lima over the weekend and at one giant...
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The Year of Magical Traveling: September 2012
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Sunday, September 16, 2012. And so we come to the end. The staff of Manos Amigas took us out for a goodbye lunch at everyone’s favorite place - La Pollera, where else? Which was really kind and unexpected. But otherwise. coming home has been hard. Starting with the bluster and belligerence ...I fee...
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The Year of Magical Traveling: Just another link in the chain?
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Thursday, December 8, 2011. Just another link in the chain? At one point in the afternoon, Luigi commented about the links in the fair trade chain between the producer and the consumer, and how it was represented here. Except we did; Global Gifts was represented. I piped up. Warning: product promot...
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The Year of Magical Traveling: Dad's recuerdos de Peru
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The Year of Magical Traveling. A lovely gift of a sabbatical for Sam means a year of magical traveling while we learn Spanish, volunteer with a fair trade organization in Lima, and amble through South America. Monday, March 26, 2012. Dad's recuerdos de Peru. I invited my parents to write a guest post, if they so desired, about anything from their visit. My dad took me up on it. This guest post is a vignette of impressions and observations. You take your life in your own hands when crossing a street. ...