Anxiety-ridden, pacing my kitchen for hours in the middle of the night, and incessantly checking my email and texts described the hours before we left for Ecuador. Finally, 4 hours prior to the plane taking off the ground, we received our COVID test results. … More Shove It, Travel Shamers – We Got Our Damned Negative Results, so We’re Going to Ecuador
Yet another delightful train ferried us to Budapest, Hungary. Hungary’s capital is bisected by the Danube River with the hillier Buda section on one side and the flatter Pest district on the other. … More Travel Revival Part 5 (Non-COVID Related) – Budapest, Hungary
Our departure from Slovenia was via train – definitely one of my favorite ways to travel. For this leg, our convoy through the Alps took us to Austria. Target… Salzburg. … More Travel Revival Part 4 – Salzburg & Vienna, Austria
Slovenia ended up being the highlight of the trip. Our first stop, being the capital of the country, Ljubljana (pronounced LOO-BLEE-ON-YA). … More Travel Revival Part 3 (Non-COVID Related) – Ljubljana & Bled, Slovenia
Thanks to a random dude I chatted with on a plane (I think to or from Atlanta, not that anyone cares), I discovered the wonders of G Adventures as he was perusing a G magazine on the flight. This trip was booked through them, and was called the Venice to Budapest Express. … More Travel Revival Part Two (Non-COVID Related) – Venice, Italy
Upon looking back at the sad, unfinished first post I created to start on this blog, I decided I should take this down time, before the Hubs and I depart for Ecuador in December, to actually detail that trip. It was our first ever trip together way back when in 2015 before Beer Flu became a modern day plague … More Travel Revival (Non-COVID Related) – Florence, Italy
INCA TRAIL, PERU:
CONTENT PRETTY OBVIOUS, but…. Let me set the scene, granted this basic post is also included in the “Sorry Jesus” Inca Trail post, but I decided it deserved its own mention. Anyway, back to the scene… … More THE PROPOSAL
Lake Titicaca (spelled Titikaka down there) is the highest navigable lake in the world at a staggering 12,500 ft., and 922 ft. deep at the deepest point. One cannot see land at some points across the lake (3200 square miles is the surface area)… moral of the story: Lake Titicaca is HUGE. … More A Few Days on a Boat
INCA TRAIL/MACHU PICCHU: After much deliberation, I don’t think I can summarize the Inca Trail in 4 easy points. I can, however, reminisce on the craziness that became our group dynamic, and recall the awesomeness of the hike. … More Sorry Jesus…
AMAZON JUNGLE, PERU:
The trip to the Amazon began with a red eye flight from DC to Lima. A sleepless overnighter, 2 more flights – to Cusco and then to Puerto Maldonado – then a 45 minutes bus ride to the dock, followed by a 3 hour boat ride to the lodge (Tambopata Ecolodge), finally concluded the transportation portion of the 37 hour long day. … More All mushrooms in the Amazon are edible… at least once
