Some travelers stay in luxury hotels and eat at fancy restaurants while on vacation. Those on a shoestring budget don’t have money for anything so that they are able to stay on the road for months at a time. But if you fall somewhere in between, and have to choose between a nice hotel or spending money on food, I’d recommend choosing food every time. There are a number of reasons for ...
Lone Horse on Kauai
My friend Vee's post from earlier this week got me thinking about the trip we made to Kauai, Hawaii to visit her last year. I have very few photos from that trip. After we returned, I had a series of hard drive failures (on both my computer AND my external backup drive) and I lost almost a year's worth of photos that I had not yet edited and uploaded to my Flickr site. This is one of the few that ...
15 Weird and Wonderful Things You Can Buy at San Pedro Market in Cusco, Peru
The San Pedro Market in Cusco, Peru (Mercado Central de San Pedro) is a huge food market, open seven days a week. The building itself is one block long and three blocks wide. Vendors are packed into every bit of space inside. Outside, indigenous women and children sell foods and herbs they lay out on blankets. I couldn't get enough of exploring this vast public market. I could have wandered the ...
The Diverse People and Fruit of Hawaii
The following post was written by our friend Vee, who lived for a year on the Hawaiian island of Kauai teaching at a local community college. She currently lives in Washington, DC. The fruit you find in Hawaii is as exotic and diverse as the people who live there. Hawaii has a long and complicated history of race relations. These divisions persist to this day, though for the most part, people ...
Happy Birthday, Golden Gate Bridge!
This weekend San Francisco is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge. Tonight the bridge will be closed for an hour for a fireworks display and various events will go on tomorrow throughout the city. The event got me thinking about my many wonderful visits to the bridge. It’s spectacular, even on the many days when dense fog drowns all but the base. My sister visited me here ...
Friend Friday | Javier and Andrea from Buenos Aires
This week I got an email from Javier from Buenos Aires. We met Javier and his wife, Andrea, in Torres del Paine National Park. We shared a room in the Torres Central refugio. Javier and Andrea arrived in the park that afternoon, did the entire (7+ hours round trip) hike up to the base of Las Torres, and returned to the room past 9pm ready for a much-needed, good night's sleep. Unfortunately, ...
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