Montañita, Ecuador is where me and the then 14 year old awesome teen hung-out for a couple months, scheming ways to get to visit the Galapagos Islands. It was Christmas time and an annual family gift of cash paved the way. We bussed the 3 hours to Guayaquil, had a local friend we made take…
We visited the popular beach town in Northern Peru – Mancora – twice. Once in 2009, then again in 2011 as we made our way back to Ecuador to visit the Galapagos Islands. We landed off the bus the first time, fresh from Ecuador and ran into an American friend we had met in Canoa….
Photographs of trees in Uruguay. I wish I had the original of this photograph but it seems to have been lost. When the awesome teen and I moved to Uruguay from Argentina we rented a car and took a road trip/moving trip. It was fun. The country is not very populated so we were on…
Mar del Plata is a fun city on the Atlantic coast of Argentina, around 6 hours from capital city Buenos Aires (you can bus, or ride a train). It is the top baleanario (seaside resort in English) in Argentina – visit during December through March if you don’t believe me… There are two shopping malls…
Like every major area (and even small towns) in Peru, the city of Cusco where travelers spend a little time planning their adventure to Machu Picchu has a bunch of markets. There will always be a main market (Mercado Central in Spanish) that is set-up and regulated by the government, with shop owners paying a…