About That Journey... The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu Me, overlooking the Cloud Forrest at Dead Woman's Pass
Last week, I returned to Lima from a 4-day Inca Trail trek to Machu Picchu. It was an excursion my friend and I had been planning for over Continue Reading Move Over Fear, Curiosity is Here to Stay Curiosity at its finest (photo credit: theodysseyonline.com)
“I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.” -Albert Einstein
The word ‘curiosity’ has been getting a lot of attention lately. So much so, in fact, that it may Continue Reading Embrace the Weird: Austin, Texas SUP and Kayakers, Barton Springs
“You should try ‘Goat Yoga’ while you’re here,” a friend suggested. I was in Austin, Texas for the 4th of July week dog sitting a golden retriever and visiting fellow Remote Year Continue Reading A Visit to Lidice: a village wiped off the map Overlooking the fields that had once been Lidice: statues of the children who perished.
Do you remember Lidice? If you didn’t live during WWII, come from Germany or Czechoslovakia, there’s a good chance you've never heard of it.
Lidice Continue Reading Sydney: My first week in Australia A Trip to Sydney
After traveling 53 hours to get to Sydney, Australia, you could say I took the scenic route. With an unexpected 12 hour layover in LA and a route that took me up over the the Arctic Circle Continue Reading What and Where to Eat: An afternoon of food and drinks in Mexico City A Grasshopper Taco
It would be wrong to travel through Mexico City and not get your hands a little dirty. That means eating at markets and testing the street food. Mercado San Juan is a perfect example of Continue Reading
ABOUT ME
Posts from 1+ Years of Travel
50,000 miles, 23 countries, 5 continents... and almost 2 years later. I've left the corporate world (and the US) to experience life.
Córdoba, Argentina has a saying, “you can travel all over the world, but when you come home, you’ll realize there is no sky like Córdoba’s.” This city isn’t on Top...
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller 20 years after graduating from Saint Andrews (Class of ‘96), I made some...
You know those mornings when you wake up, stretch, smile at the sun, breath in the clean air… and then notice a tarantula the size of a dessert dish about...
“At Sea, Life is Tastier”- Maido by Mitsuharu in Lima, Peru As you step into the square office-shaped restaurant space on the 2nd floor of Maido, here in Lima, Peru, you’ll...
As I enter my third week of living in Peru, I can easily say I’ve been blown away by the beauty of its people, landscape and incredible food. Like Mexico...
I spent my birthday this year high up in the jungles of Colombia in what had been guerrilla military-run land until 2004. Traveling with a friend from Remote Year and...