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“Well, here are the “kitchen” facilities,” de-
clared Franke, the friend who had urged me
for years to participate in a medical mission in
the Peruvian Amazon. “This is where you will
cook for the forty members of Selva in Action
(SIA) (www.pams.org/siamission)for the next
week!” We faced a two-burner stove, a bottle
of gas, as a small generator hummed behind
the lone cement wall.

164 BUILT BY BUFFALO BILL

My eyes were happy in Cody, Wyoming. Snow-
capped mountains, forests, waterfalls, and end-
less untrammeled spaces offered respite from my
everyday landscapes. Rugged red rock forma-
tions resembling Bart Simpson and mountains
folded in sideways waves replaced roadside bill-
boards.

180 CODY WYOMING

Founded in 1896 by Col. William Frederick Cody
(best known as Buffalo Bill), this town of 10,000
is home to 52 restaurants, 51 food trucks, 2,900
hotel rooms and other places to bed down – plus
14 museums, including six eye-popping world-
class collections affiliated with the Smithsonian.

Alison DaRosa

Alison DaRosa is a six-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for travel
writing, the most prestigious prize in travel journalism. She served 15 years as
Travel Editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune and was the award-winning editor
of the San Diego News Network Travel Page. Alisonwrites a monthly Travel Deals
column for the San Diego Union-Tribune and is a regular freelance contributor
to the travel sections of the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and AOL Travel.
Learn more about Alison on her website, www.AlisonDaRosa.com

Carl H. Larsen

Carl H. Larsen is a veteran journalist based in San Diego. He now focuses on
travel writing, and issummoned to pull out his notebook whenever there’s the plain-
tive cry of a steam locomotive nearby. In San Diego, he is a college-extension instruc-
tor who has led courses on the Titanic and the popular TV series “Downton Abbey.”

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