She was just lying there, limp and lifeless on the side of the road – we all thought she was dead.

            It had been a long day. We’d been playing a cricket match – volunteers vs. company staff –

In 19 days I will be traveling to Cuiaba in Mato Grosso, central Brazil for my wedding. At first, having two weddings seemed like a simple way to avoid worrying about obtaining visas for everyone in her family to come here, or vice versa. Little did I know how complicated it could be.

The first time I...

Today I almost booked a ticket home to the United States.  I tried.  If I could have, I would have.  

But I didn’t.  And maybe it’s for the best.  Now, three hours later in the cool of the evening, a month of the austral summer in Patagonia seems preferable to February in...

wailing men wielding machetes in a village at three in the morning.

Let me back up a bit: I just finished a week's worth of research in the Sine-Saloum Delta region of Senegal for a travel guidebook. The US Peace Corps volunteers, a motley collection of Americans focused on community development...