Michael Ward

An ex-pat by happenstance, Michael has spent most of the last three years in and around Germany. But he still finds time to make it to Latin America. His work is available at www.michael-ward.com.

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Clear Skies and Hefeweizen Haze: Hiking in the Austrian Alps

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The Audi A4 screamed down the Autobahn at more than 120 miles per hour, punching a tunnel through the early morning mist that coated the Bavarian countryside. With each minute we were a couple miles closer to four days of hiking in the Austrian Alps. Curiously, of the three Germans and one American writer in …

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Horsing Around the Other Inca Trail

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“Where are the horses?” our guide Albizú Segovia asked, a beige hat shading his perpetually youthful face from the Andean sun. “They didn’t follow us,” my girlfriend Katharina and I explained. Albizú looked down at the ground before taking off back up the path alone.   A few minutes later, the thunder of hoofbeats against …

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