Awwwe! Cuzco, the famous Inca Capitol. The city is gorgeous set in the Andes Mountains with mostlly very traditional Spanish style architecture with portruding wooden balconies, plaster, narrow streets and Spanish tiled rooves. I feel a lot like Toledo, Spain was picked up and dropped in the middle of the mountains. There are only two seasons here, the dry season and the rainy season, which does not bode well for our Inca trail hike next week. The temperature i...

'Lima is a city of many faces' said our guide Cesar, which could have not been more true. The up's and down's of both the city and the country are reflected through the architecture and the different neighborhoods throughout Lima. In certain places there are big old homes from the turn of the century, and then not far from those are the smaller, cheaper homes from the economic downturns of the city. Anyway, Peru now is on a new rise and people seem more optimisti...

Well, I'm about to set off on what I hope to be my own year-long "epic odyssey" around the world. The late nights spent gouging my eyes out after staring at website after website for hours on end only to settle into bed with the warm stories of 1/2 star rated hostels and rickety buses are finally coming to an end. The reality of those stories is about to begin a few days, and I will be making my own negative to zero star ratings of hostels in the third ...