South America
Bowling In Paraguay
Originally appeared in my old blog May of 2015, have updated slightly with the move. I love bowling. I am a believer in Earl, the Patron Saint of Monster Truck Rallies, Trailer Parks, and, well, Bowling. I even permanently inscribed his name on the sleeve of my Vandals work shirt/bowling Read more…
South America
Craft Beer In Paraguay
This piece was originally written for my old blog and posted in July of 2015 Before coming to Paraguay I was forewarned by a good friend who had lived here and loves barley soda that it was a desolate wasteland. Paraguay, as most of South America, is dominated by watery Read more…
South America
San Andres – Stressed Out In Paradise
or Jimmy Buffet didn’t prepare me for this. (Skip the story, tips… pics here.) My life was flashing before my eyes. Or perhaps it was the Caribbean Sun reflecting off the chrome bumper of the truck I nearly crashed our “carto de golfo” into that was doing the flashing. Forget Read more…
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Hiking The Inca Trail To Machu Picchu
So yeah, we signed up to do the Inca Trail. Stupid me looked at basic figures… like Bogota being a couple hundred feet higher in elevation than the lost city, so figured it wouldn’t be terribly horrible. Until a couple months beforehand we actually watched youtube videos of people who Read more…
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Cusco – Cuisine, Cerveza, Pisco & Pagentry
We recently enjoyed a couple days in Cusco, serving as a bookend to 5 days/4 nights of the Wayki Experience version of the Inca Trail (more on that soon-ish) … Wish we could have spent more time there as there is a LOT to do, and stuff you don’t want Read more…
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Cartagena – Romancing The Walled City
(Just the colorful pics!) Visiting Colombia, particularly Cartagena, was a seed planted in my head when I was just a kid in the 80s and saw Romancing The Stone for the first time. (Fun Fact: Colombia was too dangerous at the time, so the flick was actually filmed in Mexico) Read more…