Colca Canyon is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. Back on my round-the-world trip from 2008-10, I realized this in the first person, when I hiked down to the bottom of it, spent the night, then was considering the prospect of hiking back up the next morning when the […]
Paris is well known as one of the most romantic cities in the world, but for me the impact on my wallet is often just as important, which can be pretty heavy when it comes to booking a luxury hotel. I’m often happy to stay in hostels and budget hotels, […]
Trains hold a special fascination for me. They are easily my favorite mode of transportation, which probably is clear to anyone that followed my Lisbon to Saigon train journey a few years ago. On my recent two-week trip in Peru, I finally got to take my first train in South […]
The main purpose of my trip to Peru was to shoot a series of videos about the some of the many sights in that great country. I have teased out a few clips in the last few weeks on my Facebook Page as I took the time to do all the […]
A few weeks ago, I was back in the States for some travel conferences and also to spend some time with my family. My father’s 70th birthday is coming up in October and we celebrated a bit early, because we could get the whole family together. It was a great […]
I am still processing my two-week trip to Peru. Literally, still processing. Because of all the time lapse photography I took (about 15,000 photos), it has taken me weeks to just get things edited, sorted, and processed into a useable format. As to the experience, it drained about all of […]
Normally I am not one for bucket lists. Actually, I think they are a big fat waste of time, if there is no thought or purpose beyond ticking items off a list. Perhaps this is because too many people have the tendency of putting this adventure or that destination on […]
Note to my readers. From the time I started this blog in 2008, I have resisted writing chronologically. I have written whenever I felt like it about whatever I felt like, whether it was from travels happening that day or three years prior. I’m going to do my best to […]
Before I took my two-week tour through southern Peru, I had no intention of writing a post about the hotels. For the most part, I really don’t write much about hotels. In fact, most of the stories I’ve told about lodging have either been of the “the is the worst” variety […]
Winter in Montreal We had not been to Montreal in over a decade, which is why we decided to turn a day trip for a trade show into an overnight micro-vacation. We made reservations at a restaurant we had wanted to try since it opened in 2001. The first thing […]
When I was recently down in Austin, I got a chance to have a beer with Erica, the female half of the couple that does the great travel and photography website, Over Yonderlust. I asked her to do a guest post for my site and she promptly put together these […]
