Category: Personal Ramblings

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Lessons From My Salsa Teacher

April 29, 2017

If you saw Erika on the street you wouldn’t take much notice. She barely passes 5 feet, her diminutive stature common in the highlands of Guatemala where we met, but do not underestimate this middle-aged Guatemalan woman with red flowers in her hair, she has nunchucks in her purse and she knows how to use… Read More Lessons From My Salsa Teacher

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Running on Empty in Argentina: An adventure trail race abroad

April 18, 2017
Hiking the Andes in Argentina

The gun sounds and we are off. The motley crew of helmet clad runners shoots past us fumbling foreigners, leaving us to follow their grass stomped path down to the gravel road. The gravel road quickly diminishes to a gravel path, then, after about 500 m, we are on a single-track trail that is more… Read More Running on Empty in Argentina: An adventure trail race abroad

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My Australian Adventure: Finding Love in the Most Unusual of Places

December 27, 2016

I started this blog a year and a half ago while sitting in an airport, waiting to head off on my first big, international adventure. I had just graduated from the University of California Davis and was leaving the only other place I had ever called home since leaving my parents’ house at 18. Now,… Read More My Australian Adventure: Finding Love in the Most Unusual of Places