Winging it in Oxapampa

If you see a little Smoke-colored Pewee in Oxapampa, Peru, don’t call your doctor.  Call a birdwatcher.  Yes, a bird watcher. A smoky-colored pewee is just one of the three hundred bird species that will blow up your Merlin phone app in this high jungle bird mecca of Peru. Who named these birds in Oxapampa? Who knows. But you got […]

SH#T!

Little birdie in the sky, Dropped some whitewash in my eye. Wait–it wasn’t bird poop! It was a clever phone stealing scam! Yes, I lost my phone on my last day in Santiago, stolen, in spite of having it in my front pocket. I was in a crowded area in Santiago, Chile, near a famous landmark I really didn’t care […]

Santiago: Read First.

The flight was bad enough, having to get up at 2:30 to be at the airport at 3:30 for a flight that left at 4:45, only to sit by that kid–you know that kid– that four-year-old who doesn’t understand the concept of seat belts and crawls on the floor, while his father plays games on his phone. If only he […]

Brutiful: Torres del Paine

On a Christmas, thanks to a shaky WIFI connection, I watched my sisters take part in a cookie decorating contest. Obscene amounts of frosting were being smeared over ginger-men, the winner of receiving upwards of five hundred dollars. I smiled at the Christmas festivities, thinking, why am I not there? That’s because I am here, and so is the Torres […]