Oh my God! Oh my God! This is in fact the real deal. We flew to Cusco and then on to the airport at Puerto Maldonado. We had a 45 minute drive via van on a dirt road to the river, then a 45 minute ride by a long, motorized canoe to the "port" -- a rough wooden platform tied to a steep mud bank. On the boat trip we stopped to see a small group of blue and red macaws eating mud from a salt lick. After leaving the boat at the dock we climbed up a tall hill and t...

Lima, Peru - City Tour - January 29, 2015 We set our alarm for 5 am this morning to allow time to enjoy coffee and to do an exercise walk to the beach before meeting our tour guide, Rolf, at 8 am. The morning was pleasant and the street we chose for our walk, Avenue Jose Pardo, was wonderful. I wish, oh how I wish, we could change Roswell Road into something like this street. It had two lanes of traffic going in both ways, but the street was divided by a gree...

Just as we arrived at the Buenos Aires International airport this morning at 6 am, a thunderstorm erupted. It was the first real rain we have seen on our trip. The storm was still in the area when our plane departed, and it made the first hour of our flight very rough, very rough indeed. Those of you who truly know Stan and his love of flying can appreciate the strange expression his face forms and his slapping and grabbing the arm of the seat every time the p...