We’re 15 Years Old!

Our LatAm-2025 journey continues: farewell Peru; hello Bolivia!… We begin in this country at Lake Titicaca – its Bolivian side, since we’d just explored the Peruvian side. Mediterranean-like (in appearance), oxygen-deprived (altitude: nearly 4000m), and really quite fascinating!… There isn’t all that much to fully contemplate-meditate upon here on the Islands of the Sun and […]

Next up on our Latin American trip was the legendary Lake Titicaca – the vast high-altitude (elevation: 3812 meters) freshwater lake… That photo’s a bit ahead of the story, as it was taken from the Bolivian side of the lake; we were still on Peruvian territory… Our main goal was to visit the floating reed […]

Can you trust the internet? A 200% rhetorical question. Those who once did have either died, gone bankrupt, or never developed intellectually since kindergarten. Or could it be otherwise? Unfortunately, even seasoned, life-hardened travelers still fall for internet scams. Here’s a tale about how I recently got fooled by convincingly pretty picturesfound on said internet… […]

Day zero: preview. And so, after several days of acclimatization (in the middle of our LatAm-2025 trip), the day had finally come to begin our trek up the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. I’d dreamed of walking this ancient path since 2011 when I first visited the place… The Inca Trail (note the singular, but […]

I hope I haven’t overwhelmed you with the details of our January trip through Latin America – especially since it’s only just the beginning ). But there’s just so much color, so many unusual things, and so much acclimatization needs doing. You need to walk, adapt, and get used to breathing more actively – for […]

After continuing our pre-Machu-Picchu acclimatization – first in Cusco then Pisac – next on our LatAm-2025 trip was… a bit more acclimatization – heading down the valley of the Urubamba River… // By the way, the waters of this river feed into the basin of the great (or could it be even the greatest river […]