I landed in Peru on a hot, sticky night nearly 9 years ago and launched The Friends Project and this idea that we can make a difference, with little resources but good ideas. Here's my first post. I can still feel the sweat dripping down my neck…
I don't care I am wearing the ugliest men's work shirt, i love this photo more every time I see it. Mirko (back), Tessa and Dominic (thumbs up!) were great Amazon-mates, excited about everything and willing to do anything even when that me…
After four hours from the final port town of Nauta, the Maranon River forks and the Yanayacu gives way — a calmer, narrower river in the Peruvian Amazon with bright green reeds nestled on either side. Another half hour, and the first thatched-roof…
We are driving along in the tuk-tuk ... the small covered, wooden boats so prevlant in the Amazon, with a small outboard motor and put-putting along. We are on the Amazon, four hours from the nearest port, of Nauta, looking for pink dolphins that…
On the discussion of whether or not my hiking boots can be saved or need to be doused in gasoline and set on fire (of which I am the only one still arguing for saving) ... Me: "Well, they got bad when I fell into an anaconda hole up to my wais…
I'm out of the forest early but with some luck: the two scientists with whom I went three weeks deep into Lago Preto are in town. They returned from the field Sunday and presented a lecture on their new book about effects of climate change in…
In a small Amazon settlement yesterday, a young boy walked up to Gladys Gonzales during a game and tugged on her arm to announce his dad had died. He cried, and she hugged him until he cried no more. Kids in peril, she says, need love. She meets…
Eleven years ago, Dutch visitors took a boat out to Cristina and Victor's home on a manmade island in Lake Titicaca. They stayed nearly two weeks in their house on their manmade floating island, on the world's highest navigatable lake in t…
Martin the German is a six-foot-five elementary teacher... who was my roomie in the hostel for most of my extra five days. We watched World Cup and yelled at the sleeping German team that one game... and it wasn't until the last day when fate…
