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Growing up in New York, Rick Segreda used to cut out of high school in order to hang out at the Museum of Modern Art and catch foreign-language double-features in the West Village, and has never stopped being subversively idiosyncratic. Apart from his work for V!VA, Rick writes movie reviews for Ecuador’s El Diario La Hora, lectures on film around the country, and is currently working as a writer and publicist for the Mardi Gras documentary, Flags, Feathers, and Lies, for producer Julie Belafonte. He has biked down the west coast of the United States and across New Zealand, and writes fiction in his spare time.
D.C. NY, CA, WA
Ecuador
The NY Times, El Diaro La Hora, The Bellingham Weekly, Revista Diners, Ocho y Medio, Ecuador News (NY), Revista Anacanda
Don't sweat the small stuff
Scarsdale, New York (I used to live there, so I know)
An angry Canadian border guard threatening to send me back into an approaching blizzard at the the Alaska/Yukon border.
Don't sweat the smalls stuff
Mongolia
Apart from Ecuador...Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, New Zealand, Alaska, Spain, Belgium, England
Donde la fortuna me lleva
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The widely practiced religion in pre-colonial Chile was the spirituality of the largest indigenous population, the Mapuche. Theirs was an ......
Read MoreThe history of Chilean filmmaking, like Chilean history in general, can be divided and defined into two separate periods: BC ......
Read MoreHolidays These are Colombia’s national holidays. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are celebrated on the nearest Monday and known ......
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The deepest canyon in the Americas at 3,535 meters (11,595 ft), the Cotahuasi Canyon is on the rise as a ......
Read MoreAltitude: 2250m (7,382 ft) Population: 13,300 Phone Code: 43 Located in the foothills of the San Juan range in Ancash, ......
Read MoreAltitude: 2,500m (8,202 ft) Population: 10,000 Phone Code: 43 Yungay is a city that lives in the shadow of its ......
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Hotel Apu Majestic is within a short walking distance from the Peru Rail Station in Aguas Calientes, though so is ......
Read MoreAguas Calientes is one of the few pueblos you will find in Peru that offers its own campgrounds. It is ......
Read MoreThis Hostelling Internacional facility lives up to the high and common standards of the organization. There is a shared area ......
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Perico de los Palotes is a small chain of fast food restaurants, with locations near Parque La Carolina and El ......
Read MoreLe Nomade offers a relaxed Bohemian ambience of couches and hookah pipes, the latter with a variety of tobaccos. The ......
Read MoreOwner Karl Heinz-Horner grew up in Germany, but proudly considers himself Peruvian after settling here and starting his own dairy ......
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The history of Ecuador\'s film industry can be divided into two periods: pre-1999 and post-1999. With regards to pre-1999, Ecuador\'s ......
Read MoreWhatever Nicaragua had in terms of an significant film industry, or even film culture, perished during the Sandinista revolution (from ......
Read MoreOnly a short distance from the Parque de la Exposición, the Museo de Arte Italiano (Italian Art Museum) is a ......
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Apu Aventura boasts over 15 years experience as a tour operator. For those looking to make the most of their ......
Read MoreThis all-purpose tour operator and travel agency offers experienced and certified guides that will facilitate access to all the best ......
Read MoreSergeturs Colpa Travel offers combined tours. On one-day excursions to a turtle reserve, you can observe turtles hatch their offspring. ......
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As you head from the Plaza de Armas, east towards Lake Titicaca, you arrive at the Mercado Artesanal just before ......
Read MoreA veteran weaver Félix Calla, proprietor of Hospedaje Los Andenes, also sells a creative assortment of alpaca wool, hand-made ponchos, ......
Read MoreSidrik’s is one of the leading alpaca wool retail outlets in Peru. It is worth going out to Pueblo Libre ......
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The Aldea Yanapay website states “another way of living.” For many of the children cared for by Aldea Yanapay, that ......
Read MoreAmong the volunteer opportunities in the Cusco area is the Q’ewar Project, a non-profit that employs indigenous women to make ......
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