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I wasn’t nervous about the night hike until Romero spotted a snake. The main problem with this is that he saw the snake before we even left on the hike. It was on the path leading to the bathroom, yet another clue that I should under no circumstances use the bathroom in the dark. “Viper,”…
Lately I’ve been really interested in finding out where my food comes from. It’s really sinking in how much I don’t know about what I eat, and it kind of freaks me out. During our stay in the Amazon, Jared and I had the opportunity to make chocolate from scratch – to see exactly how…
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small commission for purchases. I got my first—and hopefully last—broken bone a few weeks ago (get the whole story here), and quickly realized I was going to need some broken ankle recovery supplies to get me through the following weeks. I usually waffle on making…
Foster a cat and save a life! This guide will tell you what to expect and how to get started fostering a cat. It’s tough, but extremely rewarding.
October was action-packed, from our new niece (& her awesome name) to lots of time in Austin.
When it comes to Colorado 14ers, ‘easy’ is a relative term.
After the Galapagos and before the Amazon, we spent two nights in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. It sits at an altitude of 2,800 meters and kind of has a reputation for crime. I wasn’t over the moon about spending time in Quito (altitude and crime don’t do it for me), but I was curious….
Sorry. That’s a really lazy blog post title, but it’s true – our last destination in Ecuador, in all of South America, was the Amazon. I feel kind of like a cheater when I say that we went to ‘THE AMAZON,’ because it’s true and not true at the same time. To me, the Amazon…
Hello. I’ve dropped off the radar lately, and I’ll tell you why. The holidays are insane. Being home is insane. I thought I was exhausted from South America, but two weeks in the Midwest has knocked me down and basically laughed in my face. In a good way, of course. I last left off in…
I know in my heart of hearts that I’m not a camping kind of girl. I want to see Machu Picchu, but hiking the Inca Trail to get there? …eeehhh, not so much. But sometimes, I get these flares of insanity, the ones that make me think “Heck, yeah, let’s go to the Amazon!” or…
The weather in Buenos Aires has been pretty grim this week, so I haven’t done any exploring worth talking about. (To the fridge…to my desk…to the fridge again…you get the idea.) So I’ll take this post to answer a question I’ve been getting a lot lately: What exactly are you doing in South America? Work…
Whenever I think of nightingales (which, admittedly, isn’t often), I think of the scene in Disney’s “Cinderella”, where she sings this song called, “Sing, Sweet Nightingale.” So when Jared told me about this book he’d read years ago, “Across The Nightingale Floor,” I wasn’t really listening, because that song kept running through my head. “Basically,…