We had been in the mountains for our whole Peru experience thus far. Now, we were heading down to the coast. Purposefully aiming more south than west we missed Lima (the nation’s capital) entirely. Cities are huge money-sucking machines that we try to avoid if we don’t have any specific need to visit. We dropped from just over 11,000 ft to sea level in about two hours. We found ourselves high on oxygen and overdressed for the warm weather.
Continue reading “One More From Peru”Panama to Colombia
For the most part, our time in Panama was about taking care of business. After lollygagging our way through most of Central America we had not left ourselves much time to really dig into Panama. Thankfully, crossing the border was quick and painless. We made it out of Costa Rica with no trouble once we got our order of operations straight.
Continue reading “Panama to Colombia”That One Time We Went to Thailand with My Mom and Dad (Part 1)
When I was 25 years young and working for the summer at a resort outside of Denali National Park in Alaska I got the big idea in my head to go to Thailand. I was in the process of breaking up with a boy and also breaking up with my life as a parkie (serial employee of park concessioners) to go back to school. Continue reading “That One Time We Went to Thailand with My Mom and Dad (Part 1)”