I’ve changed my plans and I’m going home.  I think coming down from Vallecitos I knew what I wanted to do, but I just wanted to sit with it for a little bit longer, talk with some more people and see how I felt about the decision about not...

Yesterday morning, I started hiking from the camp I made the night before, aiming for El Salto, the base from where I wanted to climb Lomas Amarillas.  About an hour into the hike, I stopped.  I stayed still for about a half-hour, my pack still on,...

Today is one of those days when I just do not want to get out of bed.  That I just want to stay curled in a ball under the covers for the entire day, blocking out everything but my thoughts and emotions. But, I can’t.  Today, I need to get up and...

On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, a friend of Erica’s from Fletcher, Corinne Onetto, will be running a 5K in honor of Erica, while helping to raise money for Erica’s documentary, “Laughter in the Wind”. During Erica’s final year battling the...

I arrived early yesterday morning in Mendoza after a long, overnight bus ride from Buenos Aires.  The trip was probably the shortest 12-hour bus ride that I’d ever taken in that we left relatively late, were served dinner, watched a movie (Mall Cop...