breakfast: porridge I could hardly touch lunch: mashed potatoes, carrots, broccoli, and lentil mush Last night at about dusk we gathered...

PART ONE It was chilly stepping off the plane at 6:30am in Lima yesterday (and there are no jetways, so I stepped directly from the plane...

I'm in Lima Peru. It's 6:35am, which leaves four hours until my flight to Iquitos. I'm sitting in the food court of the Lima airport,...