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Collagua woman in traditional hat and embroidered outfit, road to Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Let’s terrace the clouds

August 16, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

This bus smells like I imagine alpaca farts must smell — a mix of ripe compost, dry grass, wet wool, and barnyard sweat. For the next six hours, I have no choice but to breathe it in. As we begin…

Sacred Valley bus crash, Pisac, Peru photo

Buzz kill bus crash in Peru

May 30, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

First, to our friends and families: We’re fine. We were not on this bus. Pisac, Peru is a small town with a central area of cobblestone streets fit only for tour groups, pedestrians, packs of dogs, donkey-drawn carts, and wheelbarrows….

Walking a road, Sacred Valley, Peru photo

Ever in motion on bargained time

May 15, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

At the crossroads to Maras, it’s just us versus one understandably smug taxi driver named David. With no competition or civilization in sight, we abandon all hope of negotiating a lower fare. Instead, we do what we wish we could…

Looking up inside the train from Machu Picchu photo

Riding the Machu Picchu recovery train

April 26, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Art, Travel Stories

As our Inca Rail train pulls of Machu Picchu town, I realize my hands are…well, they’re not clean. There’s Incan dirt under my nails. Also, my jeans are spattered with mud. My jacket is soaked through with the rain that…

Inca Rail train ready to leave for Machu Picchu photo

The train journey to Machu Picchu

April 17, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Traveling to Peru at the end of the rainy season in March meant that we would be risking some serious damp downsides. Instead of hiking the steep and expensive Inca Trail through a potential mess of mud and mist, we…

On a chicken wing and a prayer

May 7, 2009 · by Lauren · in Laos, Travel Stories

Caught in the act | Photo by Lauren Girardin At some point, I deleted photos from a memory card, thinking I had transferred them to our laptop. Well, I was wrong. All the photos that would have gone along with…

Delhi-Dally: The relief of being in India, the pain in Delhi

December 2, 2008 · by Todd · in India, Travel Stories

Speak no evil monkey, Gandhi Smirti, Delhi | Photo by Lauren Girardin We thought we’d be in Delhi for just two days, but it has taken us four to leave. At first, we are so happy to be back in…

Sharing everything four ways

October 12, 2008 · by Lauren · in Spain, Travel Stories

Todd with pintxo | Photo by Lauren Girardin Todd and I spend our last day in Donostia-San Sebastián with the Baron and Baroness hiking Monte Urgull and making DIY picnic pintxos from bread, jamón, romesco sauce, and queso while sheltering…

Derailed on the way to San Sebastián

October 12, 2008 · by Lauren · in Spain, Travel Art, Travel Stories

Postcard: La Concha beach in San Sebastian | Art by Todd Berman Some of the most interesting travel writing spring from disasters, misadventures, or simply the unexpected. Luckily for me and Todd, when friends join us on the global road,…

Berber jams and mariachi serenades

August 25, 2008 · by Lauren · in Morocco, Travel Stories

Kids in the Jewish Quarter of Fes | Photo by Lauren Girardin The grand taxi that takes us from the Sahara to Fes is not grand by definition, neither in largeness or in luxury. There’s no air conditioning and only…

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