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Charyn
Charyn Pfeuffer has written about food, travel and lifestyle topics for more than a decade and has contributed to more than 80 publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Seattle Times, DailyCandy.com, Sunset, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons, Islands and the San Francisco Chronicle.
She’s partial to Latin American countries, and Chilean cheekbones, Peruvian cuisine, duty free at Jorge Newberry Airport, and some kind-hearted Incans have encouraged frequent trips.
Despite averaging more than 100 flights annually, Charyn would consider taming her wanderlust ways if she could settle down in an Airstream, preferably San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (the most spectacular place on the planet, in her opinion), but first needs to perfect her Spanish. Thankfully, Rosetta Stone is helping brilliantly with those efforts. In the meantime, she’s swapping her BlackBerry for a backpack to volunteer with 12 community projects in 12 countries over 12 months with a project she’s calling The Global Citizen Project.
Yay. Yay. Yay. I am over the moon ecstatic. Thanks to your votes, I won a $5,000 voluntourism grant from Travelocity’s Travel for Good® program. I’ve been more than lucky in my 37 years, but this is one of the biggest …
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More than a decade ago, I ran the Personals and Promotions Department at the Philadelphia Weekly. Every week, I’d help hundreds of lonely hearts pen personal ads that would hopefully, land them a love connection (and help fill my 10-page, back-of-the-paper section). In addition to offering up my wordsmithing skills, ...
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Traveling is what sustains me. You can strip me of my every last material possession, but please keep your paws off my passport. As much as I love exploring new places (and revisiting much loved places), meeting …
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