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 ...

Happy Holidaze everyone from Cuzco Peru. This holiday season I've found myself working in the bar at The Point Hostel...a job I know quite well. I had no intention of working but two days after I arrived in Cuzco, they had to fire all the gringo staff working in the bar for taking too much cocaine, drinking way too much, and in general, for acting totally insane. So I stepped in to help in exchange for the normal pay...a free bed, free dinner, and a discount on t...

I really miss having a scooter or motorbike to get around on. That was probably my favorite part of traveling in South East Asia...the freedom to go where you want, when you want. I'm back in Cusco, former capital of the Inca Empire and simply an amazing mountain town that by all accounts is overtouristed but still unmissable if you're going to be in South America. My last visit to Cusco in August of 2006 took me and five friends west through the Sacred Valley o...