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July 18, 2012
July 2, 2012 While the rain and soccer had delayed our departure from Puca Urquillo by an hour or so, we still had enough time to make a quick stop at the village of Santa Lucia de Pro – the …
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July 17, 2012
July 1, 2012 Before leaving Nueva Esperanza, Yully and I had packed just enough things for our overnight stay in Puca Urquillo so Oscar dropped us off at the Bora side of the village and went on to Pebas for …
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July 16, 2012
June 30, 2012 When we loaded our gear into Oscar’s boat to head downriver from Brillo Nuevo, we laid down one plastic tarp on the bottom first, placed our big bags in it and then put another tarp on top …
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July 14, 2012
June 30, 2012 – Brillo Nuevo While the canela moena and copal leaf distillations didn’t produce much oil, their briefness let us begin the next round of surveying chambira palms in the purmas (fallow forest-farm fields) of the artisans. Over …
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July 10, 2012
June 28, 2012 – Brillo Nuevo Our task for Wednesday was to extract as much oil from the leaves from the palo de rosa (rosewood), copal and canela moena we had collected the day before. In all of our previous …
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July 09, 2012
June 26, 2012 I met our three new forest crew members right after breakfast and gave them a quick overview of latitude and longitude and how a GPS device uses signals from multiple satellites to fix a precise position on …
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July 08, 2012
June 25, 2012 I have always looked forward to going to the Bora native community of Brillo Nuevo because it has come to feel like my village home away from home. I liked and felt accepted by most people I …
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July 05, 2012
June 25, 2102 While Yully and her husband Victor zipped off on his motorcycle to get a few last minute supplies, I wandered into the modestly appointed Bar La Rejita just outside the main gate to Puerto de Pescadores. My …
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July 04, 2012
Iquitos, June 23, 2012 Every year or so I want to bring samples of the insects we’ve been collecting in our research in Peru back to the United States. While the Amazon has the greatest diversity of many species of …
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June 14, 2012
My trips to Peru usually begin with a car ride from State College, PA to one of the three airports in the Washington, DC area. My journey south began this time with a different twist. I took the same bright …
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March 15, 2012
With our gear and bag full of handicrafts loaded in the boat, Yully and I headed downriver with Beder at the helm of a peque-peque with his daughter Mari as his co-pilot. The clear afternoon gave me a chance to …
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March 14, 2012
Brillo Nuevo was dark and quiet when we finally pulled in just after 10 pm. Half-way into the rainy season, Oscar drove his boat almost to the back of his house. I took off my shoes and socks to wade …
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March 02, 2012
Sunday, February 25, 2012 I wonder how many creative ways there are to say it was a long day. Before heading off to the port, Yully and I had a quick meeting with Romero Rios – a Maijuna leader from …
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March 01, 2012
Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012 On board the lancha Jorge Raul – less than 90 minutes from Pebas. I appreciated that many things were the same in Iquitos and had to accept that others had changed since my last visit in …
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February 23, 2012
Feb. 23, 2012 Lima Today has really been almost two consecutive days of traveling to mark my return to Peru. It began yesterday morning around 4 am when I got up with my wife Yuri. She walked our dogs while …
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July 12, 2011
After some days of getting right to work, I enjoyed having some time in Nueva Esperanza to do my morning exercises carefully watched by a little dog named Candy. I was unfortunately too exuberant with my shoulder stretches and an …
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