{"id":39782,"date":"2020-04-16T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T23:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/?p=39782&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=39782"},"modified":"2025-02-27T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:41:15","slug":"be-together-dan-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/be-together-dan-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"An open thank you letter from blind athlete, Dan Berlin, to his local leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To help us all feel a bit closer while we\u2019re physically apart, we\u2019re sharing letters to and from those who made their adventures extra special.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/travel-deals\" data-wpil=\"url\">Share your story with us today.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Dear Elias,<\/h3>\n<p>Hope you and your family are safe and well.\u00a0Travel is one of my greatest joys in life and during this time of lockdowns and travel bans, I have been going back and reliving some of the best experiences of my life. \u00a0At the top of the list is our 2015 Inca Trail expedition.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46183 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and his leader, Elias\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-1-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-1-1-425x239.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-1-1-585x329.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/adventures\/kilimanjaro-in-darkness-we-climb-kili-with-blind-athlete-dan-berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>READ MORE: CLIMBING KILIMANJARO WITH BLIND ATHLETE, DAN BERLIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I told\u00a0people\u00a0I was going to attempt the Inca Trail in a single day they told me it\u2019s crazy for anyone to try, let alone with a blind person.\u00a0You ran the Inca Trail three times before I arrived to make sure I\u2019d be ok.\u00a0And then you ran with me every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ylZiCq5IL2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We live in such a visual world that\u2019s it difficult for some people to understand how I see beauty.\u00a0But for me, it\u2019s the people I am with. And people like you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-2-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46187 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Team See at the top of the Inca Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-2-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-2-1-425x239.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-2-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Dan-2-1-585x329.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish you well and look forward to our next visit to Peru when this pandemic passes.<\/p>\n<p>All my best.\u00a0 Take care and stay safe,<br \/>\nDan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/travel-deals\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39793 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/share-your-story-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Share your story\" width=\"780\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/share-your-story-blog.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/share-your-story-blog-425x149.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/share-your-story-blog-768x270.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/share-your-story-blog-585x206.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You ran the Inca Trail three times before I arrived to make sure I\u2019d be ok.\u00a0And then you ran with me every step of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15098,"featured_media":39785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[2721,57,468,37],"class_list":["post-39782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-be-together","tag-inca-trail","tag-machu-picchu","tag-peru","ipf_theme-walking-trekking","ipf_region-peru"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - 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