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Join The Blogging Post as we head around-the-world with our friends Drew & Erin. They’ll be sending us regular dispatches and updates from around, across, and all over the globe. This is their second post from Peru…

An Incan Experience

The word Qosqo – from which Cusco is derived – means “navel” in the native Quechua language. The significance of the name Cusco is that this city was the navel or center of the vast Incan empire. The Incan empire was a short-lived but widely expansive empire that reigned over a large part of South America from the 1200’s to the 1500’s. At its apex, the empire spanned all the way from present-day Colombia in the north down through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and into Argentina and Chile in the south.

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Ever get the feeling that auto manufacturers promising to increase mileage and/or create electric cars are all talk and no action? If so, you could do what a handful of people are doing all over the country and take matters into your hands.

Converting your gas guzzler into a battery-powered vehicle may be easier than you think. Take Larry Horsely, for instance. He recently converted his pick-up truck to run on batteries by ripping out his gasoline-powered motor and installing some new parts. Now he just plugs his truck into an outlet in the garage overnight and skips the gas station in the morning.

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National Geographic Adventure Blog, one of my favorite reads, posted this interview with K2 survivor and Dutch mountaineer Wilco van Rooijen last week. He describes the incident and days that followed after the ice shelf fell and gives us a more in-depth understanding of the fear and pain he experienced on the mountain while awaiting rescue.

K2 Survivor Wilco van Rooijen, In His Own Words (As Seen On National Geographic Adventure Blog)

Text by Kirkpatrick Reardon
Photograph by Ed Viesturs

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If you listened to last week’s episode of Adventure Edge Radio, you heard the interview with Charlie Engle. Charlie is a recovering drug and alcohol addict who overcame his disease and became a philanthropic endurance runner.

Charlie recently ran 4500 miles across the Sahara Desert in order to raise money and awareness for the lack of water in the region. And now he’s ‘Running America’ to help raise money for, and awareness of, childhood obesity here at home. He’s also looking to set a new record for running across the country in 45 days or less. Running America, which will be filmed and made into a documentary, begins on 9/13/08 in San Francisco. From there, Charlie and another endurance runner, Marshall Ulrich, will run an average of 68 miles a day and end in New York on or before 10/28/08.

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Join The Blogging Post as we head around-the-world with our friends Drew & Erin. They’ll be sending us regular dispatches and updates from around, across, and all over the globe. This is their first post from Peru…

The Final Frontier

After almost a year on the road, Erin and I crossed the border from Bolivia and entered Peru, the final frontier in our world travels. We were headed to Cusco where we were eager to settle into one place for a few weeks and take some Spanish classes. We were a bit worn down from our illnesses and hard travels in Bolivia and looked forward to our stay in Cusco as an opportunity for learning, relaxing, and recuperating. Cusco is known as the archaeological capital of South American due to its history as the center of the pre-Columbian Incan culture. It’s also known as the “gringo” capital of the continent due to all of the world travelers it attracts. But we hoped to get a somewhat authentic experience by taking classes and staying with a Peruvian family during our time there.

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