
Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com Think it’s a cake walk to take a day trip to Machu Picchu? Check out this timeline.
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Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com Think it’s a cake walk to take a day trip to Machu Picchu? Check out this timeline.

Photo Credit: TrekHound.Com Haven’t made it to Cuzco yet? Here’s a breakdown of how our initial visit shaped up.

Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com Adjusting to the altitude when you first arrive at the gateway to the Sacred Valley can be a challenge. Our advice? Pace yourself.

Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com We squeezed in quite a bit of Lima, Peru on this day. The national museum, the Museo del Larco, the national cathedral and finally, the Monasterio de San Francisco with its catacombs. Here’s a run down . . .

Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com A fairly large site thirty minutes outside of Lima, this set of ruins is only about fifty percent excavated.

Photo Credit: McPig After overnighting in Tumbes, we found out there was a small local airport with an airline we had not found online.

Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com This was quite a project. Issues to be considered? Price, logistics, and trying to do it without pulling an all nighter.

When we heard there was an authentic Mexican bar and restaurant just down the street from Inkawasi in Miraflores, we were stoked. Would it be all we hoped for after several weeks on the road?

These little cabanas were not in the Lonely Planet guide book for South America. In fact, the little town of Ayampe was barely mentioned at all.

Photo Credit: TrekHound.Com Miraflores is a section of Lima, Peru that runs along the waterfront and is home to a fair number of expats, from what we’ve been able to tell. Inkawasi is a backpacker’s hostel in this same district. Our experience?

Flickr Photo Credit: Tomeppy As we’ve been on the road test driving our packing lists for a bit now, Dave wanted to write up this list of observations.

Flickr Photo Credit: NinjaPoodles What information do you want on your luggage identification tags? While it’s true you certainly want to be found if separated from your luggage, there are a few things to consider.

Flickr Photo Credit: LizJones112 These things come in handy more often than you might think. Here are some of the ways we’ve been using thus far:

Photo Credit: TrekHound.Com It’s been awhile since we’ve done a hard core road trip. A couple of lessons we needed to relearn?

Photo Credit: Traveler’s Tales This book is basically a collection of brief, humorous travel essays from various writers, edited into one finished work.
Photo Credit: TrekHound.Com Directly across the courtyard and street from the front door of the downtown cathedral in Guayaquil is a great little restaurant in the Continental Hotel called La Canoa.

Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com How did the stay start out at our little beach paradise? Read on to find out.

Photo Credit: J. Hull Lots of problem-solving and information checking with no time left for internet before catching the last bus out to Puerto Lopez from Guayaquil. How did the day progress from there?

Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com After hanging out at the Dream Kapture travel office for a while, socializing with the staff and gathering information, we ventured out on our own to see what we could see.

Photo Credits: TrekHound.Com Our first night in-country, and a late arrival at that. How would we feel about this place in the morning?

Photo Credit: Burning Image Up before dawn to dress, pack and hit the road before 6:30, this day was mostly about navigation and aggressive traffic dodging.

Flickr Photo Credit: Pointnshoot If you ever find yourself on Forest Avenue in Portland, Maine and suffering from an attack of the munchies, you may want to check this one out.

Flickr Photo Credit: Rick Around the corner from the Quality Inn in the Turkish section, a short distance from the Glockenshpiel, is a fabulous little Asian getaway known as Jenny´s Taste of Thai.

Photo Credit: Jan Tik Since our last posting, we have been busy digging out last minute necessities for the trip, spending winter holidays with family, walking the back roads for winter photo shots, squeezing in business meetings and driving up to check on the lake house . . . phew!

Photo Credit: Cyberpowersystems.Com Last May for my birthday, my parents sent me a Cyberpower car charging adapter.

Flickr Photo Credit: Tiago Celestino This is an area we’ve been looking into for a while now. While the technology has definitely come a long way in terms of portability, it has been a bit of a quest to filter through the information on which items can be fully charged, and which can only be [...]

Flickr Photo Credit: Ebifry Before leaving Tucson to drive across the country to Maine, we attended a holiday open house hosted by our Tucson State Farm Insurance agent, Rebecca. In addition to fabulous food and entertaining conversations with her young and energetic staff, David and I also had a lengthy and very interesting travel conversation [...]

Photo Credit: T-Mobile.Com After months of trying to decide between palm pilots, Blackberries and other similar devices, we were told about a newly released product from T-Mobile . . . the Dash.

Photo Credit: TrekHound.Com Looking for a bit of winter sports atmosphere or a yummy microbrew by a roaring fire?

Flickr Photo Credit: Jon Rawlinson Looking for an authentic Florentine meal while you’re in town? Not in the mood to play the quality lottery?

Flickr Photo Credit: S.P. Cummings I went to this restaurant on a trip to Nova Scotia with my parents last summer. They’ve been going there whenever they pass through for some time. My take?
This view was photographed from a castle wall near Bolzano, Italy. There are many castles in the area, as well as wineries, farm stays, ecological experiences and cultural performances. The area is also a popular destination for ski holidays in the winter.
This Andean woman takes a break from selling her wares to socialize with tourists in Peru's Sacred Valley.
The ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan provides a peek into ancient civilization and also into the local Bedouin culture, which values the social experience of drinking tea highly.
This stand of palm trees against a blue sky is located in Florida's Longboat Key, one of the islands of Sarasota. It's a popular getaway with tourists and Florida residents alike, when one wants a taste of forgotten Florida.
Exploring the world-famous archeological site of Machu Picchu takes some time. In order to make the most of your visit, it's best to arrive at Aguas Calientes an afternoon ahead of schedule and head up the mountain first thing the next morning.
This command module is part of the Saturn V rocket display at the Kennedy Space Center, which is a must-see exhibit if you only have one day at the KSC. The entire venue is right down the road from the Astronaut Hall of Fame, another fun family attraction on Florida's space coast.
This abandoned mosque in Israel lies along the shores of Lake Tiberius, otherwise known as the sea of Galilea. The view of the ancient stones and overgrown plants struck me as sort of an Indiana Jones image with a bit of Middle Eastern flair.
This resort cottage photograph was taken at the thermal hot springs resort of Papallacta, located in the mountains of Ecuador. The mist rising off of the thermal pools brings a bit of a mystical quality to the image.
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