- eating my first salteña
- playing volleyball at the womens' prison
- when Bolivia scored against Peru
- when Mike and Andrew lit their guitars on fire and smashed them
- wild strawberries on the choro trail
- arroz con leche
- mud fight on the Beni
- clubbing in Cusco and watching everyone get down, especially Isaac
- fruit smoothies at el mercado central
- cliff jumping at the waterfall
- hot springs
- nights at the program house
- the sound of the waves at Isla del Sol
- the freezing sunrise over Lake Titicaca
- getting hypothermia in the Cordilleras and driving through a rainstorm to Hostal Austria
- café Alexander
- getting to the top of that little mountaintop in the Cordilleras
- watching the boys play soccer at Carmen Pampa
- the drive that had us descending to the Amazon through the night
- the 20 hour bus ride back from the Amazon, Alex almost threw up on me and foul-smelling brown liquid was dripping on me from the ceiling
- the fucking DYNAMITE that went off sometime in the night during that bus ride and how later, Kyle was like "Yeah what the FUCK was that?"
- sunrise over Machu Picchu
- visiting Carlos Prado and learning about traditional medicine
- the bus rides to and from ISPs with Mac and Isaac
- eating burning coca leaves with the Kallawaya
- Spanish lessons with Carla at the casita
- when I was Alex's neighbor in Tiquipaya and I had to stay at Doña Maxima's house at the beginning and I played with Jahn and Giselle and picked cactuses and fruit and watched cartoons and then Doña Juana finally came and whisked me away
- Eucalyptus trees on Isla del Sol
- playing cards for about seven hours while we waited at Hostal Austria to see where Regina and Ryan were (they were stranded)
- going to get pizza with Isaac and he didn't wear any shoes
- leaving Asunción forever
- jamming together at the casita
- playing ninja at Quico Chico
- scarlet macaws in the Amazon
- canned peaches
- dancing to Pachamama at multiple restaurants
- the llama sacrifice
- café Blueberries with Nina (she had a poop sample in her bag)
- in Rurre when Mac kept yelling "JAGUAAAAARR!!!"
- the hammocks in Rurre, and how I had salmonella, and how Nina and Teetee did too, and how we re-celebrated my 18th birthday and i had SALMONELLA
- BUG BITES AND DIARRHEA
- the black market, and how we searched for cool tshirts for like half an hour and someone tried to cut open Nina's bag
- the trampoline at Allkamari
- how the instructors tricked me into thinking I was getting in trouble for breaking red rules with Alex
- when Nina finished Game of Thrones and started bawling
- the sweat lodge experience
- the candlelit dinners in Asunción with Emily, Josh, and Andrew
- climbing up that red rock wall near Allkamari and Mac was like, "let's all chant FUCK YOU KATE!"
- the stars in Quico Chico
- fried plantains
- eating ourselves to death at Jack's
- CHUPETES
- THAT FUCKING DOG LORENZO AT THE PROGRAM HOUSE
- how Mike and Nina's dog ate the fucking rabbit
- the first time I went to the chocolate museum with Nina, Andrew, and Jordyn
- the tourists at Salkantay who put up rain flies under a shelter
- when we had to have an emergency group meeting in Carmen Pampa because everyone hated each other
- when I got locked in a god damn bathroom while everyone was watching a movie about baroque music
- how Jordyn broke a window afterwards
- mooning the fire at Sol y Luna
- the first scavenger hunt in Coroico and no one in my group knew any Spanish
- hiking the end of the choro trail through a rainstorm and almost getting struck by lightning and then hanging up all our wet shit all over Sol y Luna
- how Alex ordered a yoga teacher and not enough rooms at Sol y Luna
- that night we ate oven baked bread on Isla del Sol and it was the most brilliant thing in the whole world
jan 9 2013 ∞
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