by Anthony | Jun 23, 2022 | art, graffiti
Some people bring a journal on vacation. I brought spray cans, and apparently that impulse does not stay home just because the humidity triples. I felt like painting. That is really the entire story here, no bigger philosophy attached. Somewhere deep in the jungle,...
by Anthony | Jun 7, 2022 | Machu Picchu, Peru, South America
Here’s a joke: how do you get to Machu Picchu without getting winded? You don’t. Nobody does. Even the llamas look like they’re doing it for the exercise. I climbed it anyway, on a June morning with fog still pooled in the valley like it hadn’t...
by Anthony | Jun 7, 2022 | South America
Hiram Bingham set out in 1911 looking for one lost Inca city and came home having found a completely different one, which is either the best case of getting lucky in the history of exploration or proof that all Inca ruins look the same to a Yale lecturer who has been...
by Anthony | Jun 5, 2022 | South America
I have stood in front of a five hundred year old Inca temple and felt less scrutinized than I did under the gaze of this alpaca. Isn’t that cute. That is genuinely the whole review. Alpacas have been bred in the Andes for thousands of years, not for labor like...
by Anthony | May 25, 2022 | Mexico, North America
