By Danielle L. Krautmann A local celebrity How did it get to be this late? I’m lying on Violeta’s bed in her one-room home in Baños del Inca. Actually, it’s not just her bed, she shares this queen-sized mattress which sits on cinder blocks with her husband and 11-year-old daughter, Alejandra. It’s four o’clock in […]
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By Danielle L. Krautmann “Six months ago, I was living in Seattle with roommates, working as an occupational therapist for a home health company. Now, I am a housewife in Lima, Peru.” Can you believe that in January I celebrated my one-year anniversary of living in Peru? This country and I have had a turbulent
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By Danielle L. Krautmann The problem began when I was living in Denver, CO and a squirrel got caught in my window well. Brandy watched patiently as I spent three hours using different methods (a bucket, a broom, an umbrella, a shovel) to try to set the frightened creature free. My final attempt was with
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By Danielle L. Krautmann One month ago, I moved to Baños del Inca, a very small town only 6 km from the “city” of Cajamarca. My first two weeks were filled with holidays: an amazing Christmas visit with my family and a strange illness that rendered me useless for about ten days. Finally, I feel
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Dear GoMad Nomad: Currently I am living in Donostia, Basque Country, with my girlfriend. At the end of the month we are likely to move to Madrid, to hunker down over winter. My problem is that neither of us have more than a tourist visa, which entitles us to only three months in Spain. I remembered that you
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By Danielle L. Krautmann As my taxi weaves its way through the streets of Cajamarca, Peru, things look different than they did my last visit. Perhaps it’s because last April, I was a tourist from Lima. This time I’m here to look at apartments. I will be moving to Cajamarca in a month. The taxi
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By Danielle L. Krautmann Have I ever told you how much I love the Jorge Chavez International airport? Well, I love it so much that I try to arrive early. If check in goes smoothly I have time to sit outside the security gate to watch Peruvians say goodbye to each other. Entire families go
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By Danielle L. Krautmann The other day I was taking a taxi back from work. I negotiated the fare to be eight soles, a fair price to go from San Borja to my apartment in San Isidro. I told the taxi driver to please not take the street Javier Prado explaining “la trafica es mierda
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By Danielle L. Krautmann I can’t take my medal off. It’s bronze colored with a plain navy blue ribbon to hold it on my neck. It’s the cheapest, worst quality completion medal I’ve ever received from a race, and I love it. This one says Lima 42K, 2010 on it…my first marathon. After the race
The Wheels of the Combi Go Round and Round By Danielle L. Krautmann Currently Lima, Peru has no public transportation. This restricts Limenians to use either taxis, buses, cars, or “combies”. Charlie and I don’t plan to get a car while we’re here because it’s easy enough for us to get from one place to
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