Sunday, 22 Jul 2012 | Views [365]
This time, the tour bus came to our doorstep. Jill had found a cheap company running box vans to Arequipa…Peru's second-largest city, and therefore a more popular transit point than Puno. We greeted our driver, Oscar, and took our place ... Read more >
Wednesday, 18 Jul 2012 | Views [580]
Perhaps our greatest triumphs and tragedies occur in youth, when our skins are thin and wisdom is wrought from new experience…when the first taste is the sweetest and the first cut is the deepest. For yours truly there are seldom memories as saccharine ... Read more >
Thursday, 12 Jul 2012 | Views [350]
Although little can be done if fate fingers you for a victim of soroche sickness, Jill and I had taken all precautions possible within our power, including ample time for altitude adjustment. But, in a rookie mistake that a now globetrotter like yours ... Read more >
Wednesday, 4 Jul 2012 | Views [454]
There are pros and cons to traveling alone. Advantages include the freedom to follow your own itinerary and move along at your own pace, as well as the oft-overlooked fact that flying solo forces you to engage with locals, as well as fellow adventurer-... Read more >
