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Patagonia

Sloppin’ It Up: Round River Style

By: Anna Lick, University of Vermont

As a vegetarian and self-proclaimed foodie, I was always wondering what the food situation was going to be. […] We have a group of 14 down here and we split our group every day into chores, most of which are centered around making meals for each other. 

Patagonia

Snorkeling for Trash in Rio Cochrane

By: Jasper Thomas, Bowdoin College

After an hour of learning how to pressurize our ears, dive vertically, and check above us before coming back up, we were feeling stoked to get out to the river the next day and pick up some trash.

Botswana

Oh, Mud!

By: Cat Murphy, Ithaca College

Within five minutes of that turn, Lucy’s wheels lost traction and halted. A beast of a car, defeated by very soft, silty ground. For the entire five hours Lucy was stuck, I found a permanent smile plastered on my face. To be stuck in the mud in Botswana is where I’d choose to be over anything else.

Patagonia

Spring Seedlings and Old-Time in Aysén

By: Katie Loomis-Adams, Middlebury College

It was a misty November morning on the day that we arrived at our farm homestay outside the town Puerto Guadal. Stepping out of the Round River truck, I knew that I had landed somewhere special.