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Cheers to you, Masters of the Classroom
Ten years after graduating elementary school, I’m just now realizing that the word “inadequate” doesn’t even begin to describe the recycled Thank You cards my mom made me give to my teachers at the end of the year. It’s truly amazing to me that the fatigue I feel after running to the top of a mountain at 9,000 ft altitude is only a fraction of the exhaustion that comes over …
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Trip to Thirruvanamalai and Mount Arunachala
We just returned from our trip to Thirruvanamalai. It was simply amazing. On our first night (Friday), we circumambulated around the mountain, Arunachala, which is considered to be Shiva's body, literally. An ox-cart was hired as a support vehicle for the 14 km stroll. As it turned out, one of our group had sprained her foot pretty badly that morning on her way down the marble hotel stairs, and another’s …
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The Demise of Machu Picchu
1) The Intihuatana - Notice the crack in the upper post from the Peruvian beer commercial film shoot a few years ago: Photo by Shawn Herring The first time I visited the famous "lost city" in 1978 my travel companions and I disembarked from a local train at a one-room rail depot in a remote valley covered by high jungle. The spot was known as Aguas …
