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The River and the Road, Part II

Continued from last week.
It had been five days that I was stuck in Puerto Maldonado, in the jungles of eastern Peru, trying to find a boat to take me down the río Madre de Dios into Bolivia. Prospects were few and any leads I found turned out to be contradictory or just plain wrong. I [...]

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The River and the Road, Part I

I’ve had a long absence from the blog here, and I hope you will forgive me. I have a good reason, though: I’ve been trekking through the jungles of eastern Peru and northern Bolivia for over a week now. Internet access has been sporadic at best, but I am finally in a midsize city, and [...]

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