Peru and Ecuador, winter 2025

This one was different from the start. No boyfriend, no loose plan to meet someone somewhere. Just me, post-season, with two months before I needed to be back in New Jersey and a list of things I wanted to do.
Peru and Ecuador had been sitting on my mind for a while. I wanted to see Peru — Machu Picchu, Lima, the things you go to Peru to see — and I wanted to do another surf and Spanish school in Ecuador the way I’d done in Nicaragua, because that combination works for me. Surf in the morning, Spanish in the afternoon, slow down and actually absorb a place instead of just passing through it.
I bought the boat the year before. I’d done another Jersey season. I was in a different headspace than I’d been in Argentina or Asia — less figuring-it-out, more settled in who I am and how I want to travel. These articles reflect that.

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