I hobbled over to the finish line near Lima’s Kennedy Parque on Sunday morning, where only one feline dared to be out. It was the Lima 2026 Marathon. This annual event brings throngs of people to the city. Some are serious athletes (like the winner below), but others go for the fun. The runners represented several countries as well as […]
Limathon
Birds and beetles
While walking to school each morning, I imagine bumping into Dr, Doolittle as there is such an abundance of birds. There’s usually a pair of vermilion flycatchers, glowing like Dorothy ruby red slippers on a wire. Obnoxiously loud mitred parrots chatter in the palms, trying to create new homes as they are refugees with wings being displaced due to deforestation. […]
Bucket list
I live as if you only die once. I can think of three vivid days when I thought I would die, of have that infamous kick- the-bucket day. Once in Vietnam, another in Thailand, the third, going inside an abandoned mine in Peru. There were countless defying death days in China, where I’d risk my life just by crossing the […]