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In late April I sat in a conference room on Boylston Street in Boston, at the conclusion of 7 consecutive interviews. My final...

A year ago I flew from Kathmandu, Nepal to New York at the end of one year of travel, and shortly thereafter I vowed that “In Conclusion”...

It’s been three weeks since I landed at JFK and checked into my short-term rental, the owner of which took one look at my backpack and...

Disclaimer: This will likely be the final installment of the blog, as I’ll be returning to New York in a few days. I’ve now been in Nepal...

After the Vipassana meditation course, my next objective was the significantly easier Annapurna Circuit: a 100 mile trekking route around...

I recently completed 110 consecutive hours of silent meditation over 10 days, breaking only to eat and sleep. It was the most challenging...

After the trek and a few days of rest at the base camp, it was time to start climbing the mountain. Spantik is typically climbed in four...

I’ve just re-emerged from Pakistan’s Karakoram mountain range, where I spent the past month without signal on a climbing expedition of...

I had initially planned to end my traverse of South America in Colombia, where I wound up after taking a boat across the border from the...

A trip to the Amazon is a right of passage for those backpacking South America, since at some point, nearly everyone spends a few days...

I once wrote that the ascent of Chile’s Volcan Lanin was the hardest thing I’d ever done, but I made that statement long before trekking...

A fellow travel blogger once claimed that they should have been presented with an “I Survived Bolivia” shirt upon departure, and I don’t...

I had been warned that Bolivia can be a real challenge, which was true from the very beginning, as it took 22 hours to get across the...

In mid-March I flew from Paraguay to Uruguay, where I traveled along the coast for ten days. A fun fact is that the coast of Uruguay has...

I’ve had some great adventures so far, but none that quite compare to the journey through Paraguay and up the river on the Aquidiban...

The “seventh continent” is not on the typical backpacker route, but Ushuaia, Argentina is on the route, and boats to Antarctica depart...

This was a great adventure in every regard, which was clear from the moment we arrived in Puerto Williams to find that the “airport” was...

A few weeks ago I diverged from my route South through Chile for one week, crossing the border to Argentine Patagonia with the two...

In early January I arrived in Puerto Natales on the Navimag Ferry and spent a full week (not by choice) in what’s typically a one-day...

On January 1st I continued South through Chile via bus, from Pucon where I’d climbed Volcan Lanin and celebrated New Years, to Puerto...