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Posted by Jungle Love.

I’m a writer and blogger originally from Asheville, North Carolina.

11 responses to this post.

  1. Posted by bo keely on October 12, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    very good, and forwarded to ryan the container dweller, peter gorman and a couple others to follow.

    i hiked the other day from Belen to Tamshiyaku, and let me know if u want directions.

    there´s a good story for you at the zoo roadside attraction in padrecocha, 20 minutes away by pecapeca. talk to the wisconsin transplant biologist owner.

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  2. Posted by Dad on December 22, 2010 at 12:47 am

    Following your journey. Hoping for your safe arrival, whatever your destination.

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  3. Posted by mggreen on January 19, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    Caleb, Bill at Dawn on the Amazon told me about your blog, love your writing style. I’m sure we will meet since I am in Iquitos for 3 months and we are both Duke fans. Duke plays NC State tonight and it will be on at the Yellow Rose. Maybe I will meet you there, if not I’m sure sometime soon.

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  4. Posted by Martin Green on October 10, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Hey Caleb;

    I am doing a photo book on Iquitos and was going to put a quote from one of your blog posts if that is okay with you. I will give you editorial credit.

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  5. Posted by Alberto Fuguet on January 12, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    Estimado Caleb

    I have been reading this past few days your blog. I like it a lot.
    Im leaving for Iquitos
    on a project i want to do there. A film.
    Im from chile and the US.
    i´d like to be able to meet you, if you have time and tell you about it next week in IQT

    i leaving u my mail and data as u can see
    hope u can send yours so I can tell you more

    best
    AF

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  6. Posted by Akash on June 4, 2012 at 4:03 pm

    I was in Peru – Machupichu – arequipa-chivay-puno . planning on visit to Iquitos . your you tube video about IQT is cool. Like your style , poise and narration.

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  7. Posted by Matus on December 5, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    Hi Caleb,

    sorry to cross-post, but I only just now found this section:)

    first, compliments on your nice insightful writing. I doubt there are many things more powerful than a good sense of humour. I personally find it difficult to get this simple message through most of the time, more so if I am laughing when doing so. For some mysterious reason the recipients except you to be dull and somber when talking about problems?! 😉

    I did not find your email on the pages, smart move, but if you could find the few moments and send it to me, I would be eternally grateful. See, I am leaving for Lima on Dec 13, heading straight for Iquitos (and the jungle, or so I hope to presume). Some advice would be gold at this moment, since I am going solo. 🙂

    thanks, and take care,

    Matus

    P.S. left this below your most recent entry too, sorry 🙂

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  8. Posted by Christina on September 3, 2013 at 6:58 am

    Hi Caleb,
    I appreciate your clear-headed writing on these subjects. I’d like to get in touch. I’ve just returned from Iquitos and will be going back for more soon…Can you email me? I can tell you more about my interests that way.
    Thanks,
    Christina

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  9. Posted by David Lorimer on January 13, 2014 at 6:20 pm

    Hi Caleb,
    Wish I’d run across your blog before making a nostalgia trip to Iquitos in April 2012. I would have liked very much to have met you. Iquitos was my home for several periods between the mid fifties and mid seventie. There were characters back then but of a different nature and who, the way I recall them, blended in less jarringly. Yes, I met Bryan, within little more than an hour of arrival; he was easy. The rest of the scene prompted me to cut a four-day stay to two. My visit also coincided with the river level peaking at an all-time record height, after which I would have expected an outbreak of cholera. Which thankfully didn’t happen.
    “Come all You no-hopers, you Jokers and Rogues” as sung by the St Ives Fisherman’s Friends, would make the perfect theme song. On YouTube if you’ve not yet heard it.

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    • Posted by Jungle Love on January 16, 2014 at 6:27 pm

      Thanks David for reading! I would love to have seen Iquitos in the fifties and the mid-seventies. I bet you have some great stories from that time. Iquitos is still a hotbed of intrigue, as I imagine it was then, full of no-hopers, jokers and rogues…

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  10. Posted by Lorrie Lowenfield Jayne on March 3, 2014 at 4:55 pm

    Caleb, what a pleasure to read Jungle Love! This is Lorrie Jayne at WWC, and Lyn O’Hare and I found this because we were looking for you to invite you to a Dinner from Many Lands. Now we can invite you and family. While you were in Iquitos, I have been spending my days in Brazil near Macapa. So much has happened for you since we last saw one another. If you send an e-mail, I would love to get in touch. In the meantime, I can just read the blog. Welcome back. Lorrie Jayne

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