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Hi, everyone! This is Becca, here to tell you all about the Explorers' Symposium '09 at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, on Thursday the 11th! I drove down from Pennsylvania and arrived at the symposium at 5 o'clock.

Photo: Becca at NGS headquarters

Before going into the hors d'oeuvres party, I walked around National Geographic's really cool sculpture garden with my dad. It had statues of lots of different bugs, my favorite being a group of leaf-cutter ants carrying the greenery on their backs. That reminded me a lot of the trip to Peru and how much I miss all of the fabulous people on it.

 
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Leaving for Peru in Two Days!

The 2009 Hands-On Explorer Team leaves for Peru in a couple of days. We've gotten our vaccinations and itineraries (and passports, too!). We're busy packing, and getting to know each other by e-mail. Soon we'll say hello to our fellow explorers in person!

Each member of the team received a cool book about the Inca and a journal. Here's a picture.


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We're also practicing with our new cameras. On Friday we'll board our planes, and then it's off to our incredible adventure in Peru. We'll be really busy exploring new places, including some spots that may not have Internet access, so we may not be able to post a blog entry every single day. But don't worry--there WILL be an entry for every day we're on the trip.

So watch this site, check back often, and live the adventure with us!

 

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