The Big Field Trip_Peru

Angela's photographs and story from Peru "Farewell to the Highlands" were published in

Your Life Is A Trip, October 2015:

Peru

Huaca Pucllana: A Pyramid Made out of Mud

...From our apartment you can see a big mound of dirt, but if you get closer you will see a big pyramid. It is made of adobe bricks stacked vertically. It sort of looks like a bookshelf. It was made like that to absorb shocks from earthquakes. It was made by the Lima people between 200 and 700 A.D. The Lima people named it Pucllana which is from a language named Quechua....

Homeschool Corner

…Pisco sour is the national cocktail of Peru. (And also of Chile actually; both countries claim vehemently to have created the cocktail.) It is an elegant and tasty drink that’s easy to serve en masse at a gathering of friends. Pisco is a clear Peruvian brandy that is fairly easy to find outside of the country. While we were in Peru, Angela and I ordered our fair share of these drinks, but perhaps the best pisco sour we ever tasted was at a friend Teresa’s family home in Lima…

Peruvian Pisco Sour

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"Hamams and Sacrificial Altars”

SLAB, Fall 2016

"Which God Is Ours"

Summer 2016 Colere

"The Mysterious Crotch-Grabbing Handshake: Hard Lessons in Vietnam" 2015 Literal Latte Essay Award

"Halloween in Bulgaria"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Awards

"Thanksgiving on the Bosphorus"

Santa Fe Writers Project, February 2016:

"Garlic Naan for Hanuman"

Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition 2015:

"Escaping the Swine Flu, Nearly"

Halfway Down the Stairs, December 2015:

"Farewell to the Highlands"

Your Life Is A Trip, October 2015:

"Homeward Bound"

Your Life Is A Trip, May 2015:

The Big Field Trip

"Escaping the Great Mosque of Uqba" World Press Review, April 2015:

"Homeschooling on the Road"

International Living, August 2014:

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Front-page feature story

Santa Fe New Mexican, March 2015:

"Which God Is Ours?"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Award and

published in Asia Literary Review, Spring 2015:

"The Scorpion Whisperer"

Eventus Magazine, June 2014:

The Big Field Trip

What do you get when two blissfully-ignorant lovebirds get the harebrained idea to schlep three children,

five backpacks, a guitar, and a garlic press on a two-year journey around the world?

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