The Sacred Mountain

Looking to the left while standing on our balcony, I can see a distant snow capped mountain. After a month of looking at it from afar it was time to pay a visit, so Neil and I boarded a van at 4:30 AM to begin the journey. In this case, the peak is Nevado Ausangate […]

Random Chance

Sometimes, the best things about a trip are the things you spend months planning and organizing long in advance. Sometimes, though, it’s the things that you never expected. Take Thursday, for example. We had no particular plan for the day (after the boys finished their school work) so we decided to get ceviche. Since we […]

I have No Hopes or Dreams

Yes, you read that correctly. I have no hopes or dreams. That might be an odd thing to say given that we are on an amazing adventure, but it’s true. Why is this, you might ask? There’s one simple reason – the subjunctive. You see, we started our time in Peru with two weeks of […]

The Long Walk

What to do after sitting for two weeks of Spanish school? Go for a long walk, of course. In our case, we decided on a really long walk – the Salkantay trek. This particular version was a 5 day hike over 46 miles, over a 15,190′ pass, and with about 5,900′ of total vertical. It […]

And So We Begin…

Not having ever written a blog of any sort before, it’s a little hard to know exactly what to do here. I suppose if a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, then presumably a blog of a thousand words begins similarly does it not? As I write this I’m sitting in […]