Cooling Down: Lessons from the Desert Hot, arid and vast. I was basically looking at the backdrop of Looney Tunes cartoons I’d watch as a kid. The expansive desert stretched out a long way in front of me, just doing its own thing. What surprised me was how cool it was...

The Real Medicine! In a cab with two friends, tensions were high. After several confusing bus-rides back from the Western coast of Ecuador it was looking like we’d miss our first of four closely connecting flights from Guayaquil to Vancouver. Dehydrated, hungry and...