Always COCA-Cola

It is absolutely amazing just how common Coca-Cola is. We have found it in ever city, in every country, in every restaurant, of our entire trip. We have found in on islands and every sidewalk vendor we’ve seen. When we traveled La Moskitia in Honduras we encountered people with virtually nothing from the outside world, [...]

We´ve hit our minimum!

6 months into our trip! On Friday, March 13, our friend Alan dropped us off at the US boarder just south of San Diego…and we walked into Tijuana. We were scared, nervous, bewildered, and any number of other adjectives that one can use to describe confusion and fear of the unknown. But we were excited [...]

Machu Picchu

Trek the Salcantay Trail…check Make it Aguas Calientes…check. Eat hot yummy food…check. Go to bed early…check. Wake up the morning following 4 hard days of hiking at 3am…WHAT?!?!?!? Yeah, that’s right. Not only that, but the volume on the alarm wasn’t high enough so we almost slept in. Getting up really really early after treking [...]

Back on the Gringo Trail

The center of all tourism for Peru, Cusco is the heart of Peru’s Gringo Trail so it was no surprise that we found Cusco to be the busiest place in Peru.   No one seems to come to Peru without going to Cusco, seriously.  We´ve bumped into several people here that we met in other parts of [...]