September 19, 2026

Intro Day 333 began inside the Tico Tico Restaurant, packing gear in the dim light of a 6:40 a.m. wake-up call. The morning was deceptively calm at 11.2°C, and for once, the gravel road ahead looked smooth, free of the soul-crushing washboard sections that have defined the Peruvian Altiplano lately. Read more

Intro The morning in Yunga didn’t break with the usual high-altitude sun; instead, it arrived with a persistent rain that turned the concrete main street into a slick, grey ribbon. I woke up with a throat that felt like it had been scraped with a wire brush, a sharp pain […]