It’s been a little while since the last post, and since our adventures through Italy. But I haven’t given up completely on documenting our travels and feel like I have more stories to tell and photos I want to share. So I’m going to keep publishing posts when I can in between having to deal […]
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Florence for Pedr’s Fortieth Birthday
I had a few more posts on Central America planned, but ran out of time before we left for the next leg of our trip in Europe. So to keep the blog more or less current I’ll jump ahead to Italy and get back to Central America later. Why Go Back to Italy? We picked […]
The Highlands of Guatemala
The Highlands of Guatemala and Tikal are the two most visited areas in Guatemala. This post is about some of the things you can see and do in the Guatemalan Highlands. (Tikal will be coming in the next post.) The Highlands include Antigua: a colonial town that hasn’t changed much in a few hundred years, […]
Cusco: So Much More Than A Gateway To Machu Picchu
After our trips through the Amazon Jungle, and hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu we finally got around to exploring Cusco and the area around it. We heard that Cusco is a really nice town and that there were a lot of things to see. But we really had no idea just how packed […]
Hummingbirds, The Equator and Quito
Ecuador has a lot of animals, and not just in the Galapagos. After we made it back to Quito we spent a day visiting the Bella Vista Cloud Forest to go see the hummingbirds. Bella Vista Cloud Forest This place used to be farmland, but an English expat bought the land 20 years ago and […]
