Today, George and Lisa are on their tour at Machu Picchu which means my guide services are not needed and I have a couple days off until their return. So once again, I hit the trail on a Honda Falcon to try and explore some new places around Cusco. I'm getting to the point now where I need multi-day trips to get far enough away to see new things. Since there are only so many ways in and out of Cusco, I have to ride the same familiar routes on each excursion and ...

My friends George and Lisa have finally arrived from the USA after months of detailed planning, preparations, and hundreds of questions asked. But you can't be prepared for everything....George, at 6 foot 5", is now probably the tallest person in the country and is already hitting his head on things. Lisa is amazed that there really are alpacas and llamas in the streets and that the women carry their kids wrapped in a blanket on their backs...which I have to agr...

Another thing I've learned about traveling in third world developing nations like Peru and England for example, is that everything is possible, nothing is certain. Our four day bike and hike through the jungle to Machu Picchu became a 3 day event thanks to a one day national strike. I'm not sure who was protesting. I think it was the farmers. But it shut down the all the main roads and transportation services throughout the country. It was considered too dangero...

Back in Cusco...again! I actually have two groups of visitors coming down from The States for vacation. And what better place to show off the culture and scenery of South America than in Cusco and the Sacred Valley of The Inkas? Cusco is packed with adventure and a great place for those with only a short vacation. They each have only 8 or 9 days for the entire trip ...a traveling blink to me....but for them it's all they've got. I have no idea how the working cl...

So now that the craziness of the new year has died down a little, I just have one more thing to do....and that´s to head into no-man´s land again on a bike. The greatest obstacle, as usual, is predicting if it will rain or not. I got pretty lucky this time out with just some cloudy skies and even some sun in the late afternoon. My mission, solo this time, was to to just pick some random roads and see where they go while still maintaining some sense of ...