Riley Ringer Reads "Taking My Sick Inner Child on an Impossible Machu Picchu Adventure"

We bring you another special episode where an Intrepid Times writer reads their travel story! Today, Riley Ringer reads here competition-winning piece "Taking My Sick Inner Child on an Impossible Machu Picchu Adventure." This story was selected as the WINNER of our “A Book Led Me There” competition. Following a sickness-stricken childhood, a traveler vows to discover the long-lost city of Machu Picchu, which she’d known only through books, battling mountain mudslides and broken boots while carrying her younger self on an adventure that once seemed impossible. Story link: https://intrepidtimes.com/2025/11/sick-inner-child-impossible-machu-picchu-adventure/