Read this poem before the hog killing while working on a goat farm outside Portland For the Hog Killing Wendell Berry Let them stand...

There are many guided tour options for seeing Colca Canyon, along with one-day car tours that leave in the middle of the night from...

The son of two immigrants from Denmark becomes a professor of English at the Idaho Technical Institute Walter Albrethsen was stout, of...

I lived in Arequipa, Peru for around 8 months beginning in August of 2016. I had never heard of it before moving there, and was...

There are so many gems in this book that it's difficult to know where to start. The book contains within it evidence of major events and...

Two books that belonged to the same woman, living feet apart on a shelf In a bookstore in Bend, while browsing through the oldest books...

DON'T GET A GUIDING COMPANY! DO THIS YOURSELF! Colca Canyon, Peru *For a more condensed overview with a bullet list of how to do this,...

Years ago, on Charing Cross Road, I picked up a copy of My Lady Nicotine, an ode to tobacco by J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. ...

A basic framework for setting an intention, finding your own correspondences, and creating a ceremony around it When I am facing a...

The particular challenges that came of living and travelling alone as a woman in Java, Indonesia 'Bule' is a term used for people of...

How travellers are interacting with his legacy Ask anyone on the streets of Medellin what they think of Pablo Escobar (although I...

Antichrist Twins? I turned 16 years old on 06-06-06.  My twin sister and I were on a trip through Europe following our Sophomore year of...

May 3rd, 2015 So the Spurs lost this morning. Unfortunately the game ended around 10:30 a.m. here in Indonesia, so I had the rest of the...

Manu’s bald spot shines under the bright lights. Tim runs down the court with a knee brace more often than not. Tony is no longer that 19...

A Fellow of Infinite Jest, of Most Excellent Fancy There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish...

Where to Read it: El Alto Finca, Cerrecita, Ecuador Evangelism in small town Ecuador, farming, and the choice to be good I had been...

A note written by a ghost named Emma while she was tripping on LSD, found in the pages of Suite Francaise in Baños, Ecuador written by a...

Discovered on the shelves of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, there lurked a gift. Inside Falstaff was a beautiful inscription to...