June 11, 2016 – Last Days of Peru I’ve scribbled out notes on slips of paper and in the iOS Notes App for the past few days but I haven’t finalized most of the blog posts. That’s on the agenda soon – the hardest part will be sorting through the photos and picking out the […]
June 10, 2016 – Machu Picchu City and The Return To Cusco I only had a day at Machu Picchu but it was really something. Today, I’m scheduled to catch the 1:37 PM PeruRail train back to Ollantaytambo so I have the morning free. I didn’t see a need to pay another US$40+ for another […]
Making my way through the world wide web today takes everything I got. Taking a break from all my worries of uploading photos sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t I like to get away? Sometimes I want to go… Onto the roads I know by name So I decided to take a break from photo […]
June 9, 2016 – Post Cards From Machu Picchu The adventure is real. The place is real. Getting to Machu Picchu is at least a quarter and perhaps as much as half of the experience. I don’t really know how to describe this day yet. I’ll write a proper post later trying to capture at […]
June 8, 2016 – A Three Person Tour… A Three Person Tour! It wound up being a three person tour – me and two 20-something sisters from the Midwest. Cheyenne Knox was from Fargo, while her slightly older sister Larissa the librarian was from Minneapolis. Our guide was Rosemary and our stunt driver was Robert. […]
June 7, 2016 – The Lost Days First segment drafted at 11:27 AM (I think) I have no idea what day or time it is. The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s anthem, “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!” floats though the haze of my mind. Yesterday… Or maybe even just earlier today if today is 36+ […]
June 6, 2016 – D-Day, as in Departure Day One last crème brulee before I go. Rodrigo caught me at breakfast to say that the flight out of Easter Island might be delayed… he wasn’t sure. It might be cancelled. He wasn’t sure. Some websites were saying it was delayed, some were saying it was […]
One hundred six. Or one hundred two. My iPhone’s weather app says it’s mid-90s outside but that it feels like 106 degrees in Lake Buena Vista or only 102 degrees in Orlando proper. Yet, I needed a break from curating the Easter Island / Machu Picchu photos… and I needed to get some mileage in. […]
June 5, 2016 – Rapa Nui Marathon Last night the course overview and pasta dinner was a disaster. It was scheduled to start at 7 pm and we thought we would therefore have plenty of time to eat and head to the show for 8:30. We were told it was a fifteen minute walk but […]
June 4, 2016 – Forget it, Kevin. It’s Rapa Nui. Still no word from Skywalker or Solo. It’s an ominous phrase in The Empire Strikes Back, a featured extra line that resonates through the opening scenes of Hoth; her friends and our heroes are lost and Princess Leia feels the cold in so many ways. […]