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Apr 29, 20237 min readVisiting Lima, Part I: The SettlementsIn the summer of 2022 I had rather reached my breaking point. A couple years of Covid life had left me depressed and frazzled, and the...
Apr 29, 20237 min readReminiscing on a slum tour in South AfricaA little over a decade ago I took a trip to South Africa to visit a coworker who worked for the same global charity as me but in their...
Apr 28, 20232 min readIntroductionIf you search “why do people travel?”, you’ll be inundated with many lofty ideals in the returns: to learn, to experience, to challenge...