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Belize: It’s like a giant saltwater aquarium that isn’t all full of fish poop.
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Belize: It’s like a giant saltwater aquarium that isn’t all full of fish poop.

01/02/201612/03/2021 Posted byPeter Crosby

People don’t come to Belize for white sandy beaches. They come for what most islands don’t have: an epic, ocean-taming barrier reef.

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The Galápagos Islands: We take a vacation from Natural Selection.
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The Galápagos Islands: We take a vacation from Natural Selection.

06/12/201212/03/2021 Posted byPeter Crosby

Want to see how much better the world would be if humans never existed? This is the closest you’ll get.

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Quito, Ecuador: The world’s second-highest capital city (and not because they legalized drugs).
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Quito, Ecuador: The world’s second-highest capital city (and not because they legalized drugs).

06/11/201212/03/2021 Posted byPeter Crosby

Though Quito was merely the second capital of the Inca Empire, it was, and still is, first in “cities surrounded on all sides by active volcanoes.”

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Machu Picchu, Peru: We find the “Lost City of The Incas” right where they left it.
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Machu Picchu, Peru: We find the “Lost City of The Incas” right where they left it.

06/09/201203/30/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

We wanted to visit this place before we were so old that we’d involuntarily poop our pants when we saw it.

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Urubamba Valley, Peru: aka “Yucay Valley,” aka “Sacred Valley,” aka “Holy Crap! Valley.”
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Urubamba Valley, Peru: aka “Yucay Valley,” aka “Sacred Valley,” aka “Holy Crap! Valley.”

06/07/201212/03/2021 Posted byPeter Crosby

We had to get there from Cusco by traversing Urubamba Valley, the Sacred Valley of the Incas.

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Cusco Peru: Not everyone who lives in the Andes Mountains crashed their airplane.
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Cusco Peru: Not everyone who lives in the Andes Mountains crashed their airplane.

06/05/201203/30/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

Incas thought the Andes was a great place to build a capital city. Of course, they were hopped up on coca leaves most of the time.

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Hot and dry like LA, Lima Peru even has its clean, breathable air.
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Hot and dry like LA, Lima Peru even has its clean, breathable air.

06/04/201203/31/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

Lima is an amazing, chaotic city with a rich and tragic heritage that I’d highly recommend visiting.

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South America: We visited our fellow Americans below the equator.
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South America: We visited our fellow Americans below the equator.

06/03/201206/30/2021 Posted byPeter Crosby

South America is full of amazing places like Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Galápagos, and other places we didn’t visit.

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