2012-02-15 19:40
Something didn’t seem right when reading about the Suez Canal in our Lonely Planet guidebook for “Egypt.” The book talked about the engineering wonder being an “impre… Read More
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One family volunteers, travels and home schools their kids for a year: six months in south america and six months in the mediterranean
2011-07-24 17:00
Bolivia has about 736,000 square miles (roughly the size of the U.S. states of Alaska and Washington combined), one-third of which is Andean altiplano and two-thirds is Amazo… Read More
2011-07-07 13:06
The Bolivian "88" butterflyWhether you are sailing along on Lake Titicaca at 12,500 feet, tramping through the Yungas (steamy cloud forest), walking through glaciers along th… Read More
2011-06-21 21:29
Our room at the Salt Hotel On the third night of our Lipez-Uyuni tour we arrived at our salt hotel, an inn made primarily of salt on the edge of the Salar de Uyuni. T… Read More
2011-06-14 14:01
The Stone Tree in Southwestern BoliviaWe gotten up early to get a head start on reaching the Salar de Uyuni that night, only to get a flat tire on our Land Cruiser within 45 minutes. T… Read More
2011-06-05 13:33
Jumping in with blind pink river dolphinsDeep within the Bolivian Amazon, the four of us peered over the sides of our dugout canoe, trying to decide if we should take the leap into the deep… Read More
2011-06-03 06:13
Bolivian Squirrel MonkeyWe sped through the chocolaty brown waters of Bolivia’s Yacuma River, the breeze giving us respite from the moist and muggy Amazon air. We’d seen a… Read More
2011-05-29 17:37
Hoja Sagrada (Holy Leaf)We’d decided to take the overnight sleeper bus from La Paz to Sucre, given our somewhat rushed itinerary and desire to save time and the expense of a hotel room… Read More
2011-05-24 05:50
Llama fetuses outside a shop in the Witches MarketAs I glanced through my Lonely Planet guidebook to Bolivia, I scanned the sights for something that looked interesting until I came to the f… Read More
2011-05-23 05:29
Humorous signs are everywhere in South America and this one is from Uyuni, Bolivia, where we sat down for lunch after completing our 4-day tour of the Salar de Uyuni.We wondered if the resta… Read More
2011-05-21 19:59
The Salar de Uyuni in Southwest BoliviaThe area around the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat in southwestern Bolivia, is an other-worldly landscape of hallucinogenic vision… Read More
2011-05-13 21:49
Pondering the Temple of Artemis in TurkeyBoth our kids have missed an entire school year and our daughter studied under the auspices of the district’s independent study… Read More
2011-05-03 19:55
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Today (May 3rd, 2011) the Lonely Planet Blogsherpa group launched their first photo e-book. AlpacaSuitcase is one of the 40 featured Lonely Planet bloggers. Th… Read More
2011-04-30 19:47
Supermercado MegaThere are plenty of local abarrotes (corner grocery shops) near us, but just like the ubiquitous 7-11 convenience stores back home in the United States, the selection is poo… Read More
2011-04-25 19:29
Venta de Repuestos (and guard dog)Not long after finding spare shoelaces in the local market near our apartment, my wife asked me to fix her rolling backpack. The bag, an Eagle Cree… Read More
2011-04-19 14:53
The Master of Shoe Repair About 30 meters from our apartment in Cusco is a local fruit and vegetable market where we bought… Read More
2011-04-12 13:59
Wood carving detail on my chairIn some ways, Miguel Angel is much like the city in which he was born. The 28 year old Cusqueño with a cheerful countenance and easy manner seems torn b… Read More
2011-04-11 15:09
Peruvian barber shopOne of the things that I did not have time to do prior to leaving for South America was get a haircut; there were just too many things to do, plus I figured that I could… Read More
2011-03-30 13:23
PicaronesOne of our family’s Cusco traditions is to go out for picarones, which are deep-fried, donut-shaped treats with molasses drizzled over them. Though not the healthiest snack in… Read More
2011-03-28 15:30
Squaring Off at the Cusco CockfightsFor our first seven weeks in Peru, my daughter and I lived with the Chavez family in the Santa Monica suburb of Cusco. The family is very well off by Cusc… Read More
2011-03-23 15:10
Running the "Chuqui"Our shuttle picked us on Cusco’s Plaza de Armas and we rolled out of town and headed for a point on the Chuquicahuna River, also known as the “Chuqui,”… Read More
2011-03-20 17:13
Melvyn Douglas: 1940's Hollywood Leading ManApproximately 60 years ago, a Peruvian couple was anxiously awaiting the birth of their child and in the days leading up to the delivery, they had… Read More
2011-03-13 17:17
One of the things that many foreign visitors to Cusco try is Salsa dancing. There seems to be dozens of Salsa Dance schools and clubs (Mythology, Mama Africa, Kamikase, Roots, etc) clustered… Read More
2011-03-11 16:14
NachoPulling up your family's suburban roots and heading off for some developing country for a year can pose many logistical questions. For example: What will you do… Read More
2011-03-08 06:33
I remember trying Inca Kola when I visited Peru 25 years ago and being unimpressed with the sweet yellow, carbonated cola that is the Peruvian national drink. It has an unusually sweet, frui… Read More
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