After just a couple months of travel, we started to accumulate things that we couldn’t keep in our day packs and regular backpacks. Random useful things, random things that one day might be useful, and random things that are not useful and will probably never be useful. We needed a bag for all of it. […]

We know, we know. You want more of this sweet blog action, and we’ve been slacking. We know. Well, here you go. It took nearly three full days back in Arequipa for my legs to recover from hiking the Colca Canyon. Natalie did much better than me. She is a champion. The first day I […]

  Lucky you, two posts so close to each other. We stayed for 5 days in Paracas.  There are 4 kinds of buildings in Paracas. There are hostels/tiny hotels, restaurants, tour agencies, and mini-marts. That’s it. We don’t know where the local population lives. There’s just no other buildings. There’s only a couple paved roads. […]

Our fellow traveler, our only friend, but most importantly, our guide, the sun, was rapidly retreating towards the horizon.  Any signs of of civilization, much less life, had been left behind hours ago. Precious water was limited to just a few warm mouthfuls left in the bottom of a crinkly  bottle. The hills, dunes, mountains….they […]

Eating. Pretty much one of the best parts of thus traveling is the food. Yum. Walking down the streets, you’ll pass dozens and dozens of little bodega restaurants. There might be 10 chairs. There might be a little kids running around, sometimes even a random animal inside as well. It’s never the cleanest looking place, […]