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Toasting to Hosting
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For many adolescent students, the abroad experience provides the chance to experience adulthood–to test the waters of the formidable, the enticing, and the rigid realities of life. The lush rolling hills of Ireland, the snow-peppered slopes of the Swiss... Read more
Diving for Conch in the Kuna Yala
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The San Blas archipelago has 365 palm dotted islands sleepily spread out in the flat Caribbean sea off the northern coast of Panama. That's exactly one island for every day of the year. I say San Blas, but the indigenous Kuna people remind me frustratedly... Read more
Sweating Out the Mundane in Tepoztlan
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Most claustrophobics stay away from small, dark, enclosed, sizzling hot places, but I thought “Hey, why not try something new? Why not see just how hot I can really get before passing out from heat exhaustion? Maybe something awesome will happen.”... Read more
A Religious Experience in Cobá
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m an adventurer. On any given day, I love sleeping in the dirt and generally loathe air conditioning. But 650 pesos a night for a mattress bragging boldly of its sordid history, two dead (and very large) scorpions, one 6... Read more
10 Cool Things About Campeche
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Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula abounds with great colonial towns. Here are a few reasons that Campeche continues to rank high on my favorites list... 1. It’s surrounded by 16th-Century forts that you can climb around on! Personally, I think that... Read more

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