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When we walked through clouds...

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January 6th 2015
The only other time I’d been close enough to clouds was when I went skydiving, when, you know, you expect to be falling from clouds. But that was a 15 second free-fall and all I remember from that experience is pure fear. Coming back to clouds though, we were actually in clouds—not mist, not fog, actual CLOUDS for at least a night and a day in Machu Picchu, Peru. After our two month tr ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more