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A bamboo flute wrapped with a red waxed cord and marked with a small carved bird, hanging against a pale beadboard wall

JUL 24 2026Peru, Part Three: The Red String Flute and an Inipi Sweat LodgeA flute maker I’d messaged three months earlier turned out to live three hundred feet across the road — and a red-corded bamboo flute, a kitten at the gate, and a Lakota sweat lodge became the part of Peru I can’t stop thinking about.

Curved Inca terraces glowing gold in the late-afternoon light, with the Sacred Valley stretching beyond

JUL 23 2026Peru, Part Two: Into the Sacred ValleyMissed flights, food poisoning, and a hundred dollars traded for a hundred soles — the chaotic, luminous first days between Cusco and Calca, where the real expedition finally began.

A painting of the Seven Sisters as luminous women in a starry sky above a red desert monolith, a glowing dotted path winding through wildflowers below

JUL 22 2026Peru, Part One: The InvitationHow a single sentence, and a phrase I’d never heard — Land of the Seven Sisters — turned a bucket-list trip into something that felt like a calling.

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