Three Great Day Trips by Ferry

water-lilies

Sure, plenty of the world’s major cities have great boat tours.  Usually involving some sort of lunch or dinner, these mini-cruises taken in the sights and potentially the sounds of a city.  There’s nothing like the skyline from the water people say.  Me, I prefer full day trips by boat, places where a ferry takes [...]

What’s your favorite mode of travel?

bus

Planes, trains and automobiles.  Traveling requires some mode of transportation, even if it’s just your feet.   For 21 months we transported ourselves around the world. Let’s just say we became intimately aquainted with the semi-cama buses in South America, the back seat of a Land Rover throughout Africa and the upper bunk of trains [...]

Photo: Double Decker Bus

LondonBus

I’ve been on a lot of buses, from London to Patagonia buses seem to be the way the world travels. London’s double decker varietals are somewhat of a tourist attraction in addition to being transportation around the city. Double decker tours seem to have sprouted up in every major city around the world- the familiar [...]

Photo: Back of a Pickup

Back of a Pickup in Honduras

Imagine six hours in the back of a pickup truck.  That’s what it took to get to canoe to take us to the village of Plaplaya along Honduras’ Mosquito Coast.  It was an expedition to say the least.  An expedition of uncomfortable and epic proportions.  As we wove our way east and south along the [...]