Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu was one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, things I have ever done. No matter how much I look back through my picture from the hike and Machu Picchu itself, the picture below is always my favorite.
Day 22 of the 30 Days of Indie Travel Project is about Transit. The word travel comes from a French word meaning “work” and sometimes, getting there is work. Between crowded buses, long airline delays, overnight trains and crazy rickshaw rides, transportation can be stressful, but it can also be a rewarding part of …
Day 5 of the 30 Days of Indie Travel Project focuses on kindness. One of the greatest joys of travel can be the random acts of kindness you’ll receive from total strangers. Have you ever found kindness from strangers in unexpected places? If travel has taught me anything, it is that people all over the …
I sent my beloved passport off last week, stuffing it into a nice bubble envelope together with my passport renewal application and a check for $110. Not only was it set to expire this June (which technically already bars me from traveling to some countries that require you to have a passport good for more …
Happy Thanksgiving! There definitely could be worse ways to celebrate Turkey Day. 🙂 We got up at 3:50 a.m. and had to quickly get our stuff together because breakfast was at 4:20. This was the first day we hd to do this in the dark, so it was an extra challenge. A very weak breakfast …
I do not feel I slept at all last night. My stomach was in knots and I felt very queasy. I had taken Imodium but that didn’t seem to help (I realized later than I took the wrong dosage so that may have contributed to the problem). On the positive, I never actually got sick. …
Today was the tough day! Not sure how much I slept last night – I felt like I tossed and turned quite a bit and I was wide awake before our 5:30 a.m. wake up “call.” They brought us coca tea to start the day and then breakfast was around 6:00. So we had about …
Day one of the Inca Trail! We got picked up from our hotel around 5:30 a.m. We had set the alarm for 4:30 so we had time to get our stuff together, check out and get breakfast at 5:00 right when the breakfast room opened. Most of the group was already on the bus when …