When I arrived in Peru, I struggled to imagine how I would ever fit it all in. Peru is a country with amazing diversity, from lush lowland jungles to arid coastal deserts to the high mountain ranges of the Andes. Ten weeks later, as I crossed the border into Ecuador, […]
Similar to my post and video about the floating islands of Lake Titicaca, I didn’t get a chance to see the Amazon during my RTW trip in 2009, so when I got my schedule for my trip a few months ago with Cox & Kings, I was excited to get a […]
When you think about Colombia, your mind doesn’t automatically jump to beaches, sunshine, and fresh fruit salad served up from street carts, does it? Most people think of guns, cocaine deals and misery; but in six weeks of travelling around Colombia, I barely saw a glimpse of anything like this. […]
On my previous trip through Peru during my RTW trip in 2009, I did not have a chance to go to Lake Titicaca at all, so I was particularly looking forward to it in my return trip a few months ago with Cox & Kings. Lake Titicaca is the largest […]
I don’t often write about food on this site, though I now have the great folks from A Cook Not Mad doing up some regular food-oriented posts here, like this one for instance. But I am a big food lover… I just can’t write about it very well, in my […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am pretty darn excited right now. Writing this from a hostel in Lima (which I am not nearly as excited about, seeing how glacier slow the internet is) and I am about to embark on a two-week tour on Monday all around Peru. In preparing to write this post, […]
Recently I was contacted by some folks wanting copies of some of my old photos from a number of locations. Hopefully they end up liking some of them and using them. It did make me go back and re-edit some of my pictures from my RTW trip in 2009-10 though, […]
