Santa Marta – paradise?

I had the eerie feeling that I was being watched. As I dug through my pocket for enough pesos to make the taxi driver happy, I was vaguely aware that there WERE people watching me from every shuttered window and from behind the black iron security bars of every hidden doorway. It was 02:00am and [...]

The lines of Nazca

“A man with no expectations is never disappointed.” I wish I would have kept those words from Lao Tzu in mind when I went slightly out of my way to Nazca, Peru where the Nazca people scratched some interesting geoglyphs into the desert outside of town around 200 BC. With no modern equipment, no GPS’s, [...]

Market in Cusco

One of the delights of budget travel for me is wandering a local market in a strange and unfamiliar place. It is a welcome assault on the senses.  New mysterious smells (some pleasant, some not) mingle with brilliant colors, unidentified foods, and sounds that can betray some of the small mysteries of daily life for [...]

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