Before coming to Scotland, I never heard anyone say a bad thing about the city of Edinburgh. Now I can see why. I love just walking around and seeing what there is to see. I am staying with James and Marie, a couple I met while traveling in Brazil and then again several months later in Bolivia to go on the tour of the Uyuni Salt Desert. They just moved into a new house and were kind enough to let me have the spare room for a week. Edinburgh is relatively small an...

Like I said before, I need a vacation. I just finished working for 4 consecutive months in Alaska. And although I was surrounded by breathtaking scenery and eating five-star meals prepared by a professional chef all week, at the end of the day it was still hard work and after 4 months of that, it was a job just like yours... only better because I'm finished with mine and you're still sitting at work reading this when you should be working!. So once again, everyth...