South America articles

In the November ’05 issue of ITN (page 86), I read with great interest about a cultural-immersion program called Global Awareness Through Experience (GATE).
In traveling, I have found it useful to use a string of safety pins and diaper pins in my travel purse to keep track of small items like keys and nail clippers and for many emergency uses.
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With our two grandsons, Louis and Victor, ages 14 and 12, my wife, Monica, and I took a trip to Ecuador, including the Galápagos Islands, and Peru, particularly the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu, in March ’05.
Free air, shore excursions and much more!
I have loved to shop for jewelry most everywhere I’ve traveled! • I bought a wide, choker-type necklace made of camel bones in the medina in Tunis, Tunisia.
A further discussion of the topic first published in the August 1994 issue, page 37.
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