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We're starting to get on a roll now with doing these podcasts weekly.
On this episode, we take a trip through the city of Cajamarca, Peru.
We both met our lovely wives in Cajamarca.
Brian lived in Cajamarca with his family for 15 years, splitting time between there and the jungle for 10 of those years.
I lived there for several years myself.
It is an extremely charming and fascinating city, and almost nobody who travels to Peru ends up going to Cajamarca.
Given that we are intimately familiar with the city and that most people won't have a chance to visit, we figured it would be fun and entertaining to take you on a tour through Cajamarca.
In this episode we talk about how we ended up in Peru in the first place.
We initially planned to sell air filter cleaners to the big gold mine outside of Cajamarca.
When we learned that the mine didn't want what we were selling, we pivoted into selling hydraulic hoses and nuts and bolts to the mine's maintenance department.
They went for that and as a result my dad, my brother, and I were Cajamarca bound.
This is back in 2002.
In the podcast, Brian talks about what it was like to fly in an 8-person prop plane through the northern Andes.
I tell about how I was kicked out of college for excessive alcohol abuse and required to go through a rehab program right before visiting Peru for the first time.
I talk about how going abroad completely changed my perspective and helped me turn my life around.
We talk about food and people, the beauty of the countryside, the communal charm of Cajamarca at night, the road from Lima into the mountains, and much, much more.
Not to brag, but I do think this is one of our best episodes yet.
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We're starting to get on a roll now with doing these podcasts weekly.
On this episode, we take a trip through the city of Cajamarca, Peru.
We both met our lovely wives in Cajamarca.
Brian lived in Cajamarca with his family for 15 years, splitting time between there and the jungle for 10 of those years.
I lived there for several years myself.
It is an extremely charming and fascinating city, and almost nobody who travels to Peru ends up going to Cajamarca.
Given that we are intimately familiar with the city and that most people won't have a chance to visit, we figured it would be fun and entertaining to take you on a tour through Cajamarca.
In this episode we talk about how we ended up in Peru in the first place.
We initially planned to sell air filter cleaners to the big gold mine outside of Cajamarca.
When we learned that the mine didn't want what we were selling, we pivoted into selling hydraulic hoses and nuts and bolts to the mine's maintenance department.
They went for that and as a result my dad, my brother, and I were Cajamarca bound.
This is back in 2002.
In the podcast, Brian talks about what it was like to fly in an 8-person prop plane through the northern Andes.
I tell about how I was kicked out of college for excessive alcohol abuse and required to go through a rehab program right before visiting Peru for the first time.
I talk about how going abroad completely changed my perspective and helped me turn my life around.
We talk about food and people, the beauty of the countryside, the communal charm of Cajamarca at night, the road from Lima into the mountains, and much, much more.
Not to brag, but I do think this is one of our best episodes yet.