In August last year the town of Pisco some 4-5 hours south down the panamerican highway from Lima was pretty much razed to the ground by the effects of an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the richter scale. I find myself here leading another expedition through Peru and Bolivia and having not visited the town...

No, this is not what I say in my time away from the computer mining a few decades of traveling stories into some sort of cognitive narrative. Besides being an election year in the U.S. and the Year of the Rat on the Chinese Lunar calendar, this year is dedicated to a very famous vegetable....

“I told you Dominica is beautiful”, Sherry tells me of her native land. “Very mountainous”. We were playing with Google Earth after feasting on massive salads. We were tilting hilly terrains, rotating the horizon, laughing when someone zoomed in too fast or couldn’t control the mouse...

Hmmm, my first travel blog.  Ok, here's the deal.  I first traveled out of the country just last year.  It doesn't seem that long ago!  I went to Peru for a week and got bitten by the travel bug bad.  I live to travel.  Life?  Who needs a job when you can wander...

This is Trip Taco: Part II from the reproduction of Facebook notes that I've been posting since May 23, 2007.  It's an impromptu but thoughtful account of what I like to call "Trip Taco." I'll post it in three parts correlating with the three general areas that the hand of Trip Taco has touched:...

Finally booking flights to Bermuda, I went to bed at 3 am last night. Like a woman possessed, I'd obsessed over this decision for the last few days; rationalizing it and trying to convince myself it was essential to my wellbeing. 

A sort of quick belated Valentine’s celebration jaunt, I explain...

We got to Cusco, and naturally had not made any plans regarding our trip to Machu Picchu. We scouted out different travel agencies, fully aware that we were too late for the classic Inca Trail trek. We decided on the Inca Jungle Trail as a fun alternative....mountain biking and hiking through the...

My new friend, Jill is off to Peru and possibly Bolivia for three weeks and wanted to know if I had any advice, so herererererererere, we go!

I only spent a day in Lima. It was a sunny Sunday and we went down to the beach, which was PACKED. Out of literally thousands of urban Peruvian beach-goers,...

Saludos a todos de Santiago,

Still alive down here in the old sur de america, and a lot has happened since I threw out the last grouper billy buddy so fasten your seatbelts low and tight across your lap and brace yourself for turbulance and a loss of cabin pressure, because we have a lot to talk...

Saludos a todos a Arequipa,

I have now been in Peru for almost nine days, It feels like a month or more.
I met up with Huntington, Ben and Cody in Lima last Sunday night. The next day we reluctantly boarded a bus for Cusco that would take 22 hours. A day later we arrived, eager to ease the...