Better than the Amazing Race
“What a ridiculous show,” was my first thought when The Amazing Race came out many years ago. Why travel around the world to spend just […]
“What a ridiculous show,” was my first thought when The Amazing Race came out many years ago. Why travel around the world to spend just […]
If you’d asked me a week ago if I was the type of person who would swim with sharks, I’d have answered with an emphatic […]
Not every moment of travel can be as thrilling as hiking to Choquequirao or visiting friends in Brazil and Chile or hanging out in Rio […]
While scrubbing five days of mud, sweat, sunscreen and insect repellant off of my body I felt identical bulges on the back of each leg. […]
“Yes, stay,” is what “Ari qhipay” means in Quechua. One legend says that the name for the city came from this answer that was given […]
A train trip I took from Denver to Salt Lake City last year made me feel like I was on another planet. The landscapes in […]
Prepare the Cabin “Flight attendants, prepare the cabin for crossing the Andes.” In all my years of flying I have never heard such an announcement. […]
“Your Portuguese is 99%. How did you learn to speak it?” I can’t get enough of these compliments, even if it came from the husband […]
Rio is known as the “Cidade Maravilhosa” and it really is marvelous. I’ve been here many times and it never gets old. The rain forest-covered […]
“Tim, thank you for everything. With you, I was happy. You were my favorite teacher.” Wow, how could I not be overwhelmed with joy after […]