I was privileged to get to visit one of the Wonders of the World during my travels in Peru, but I wish I would have done it a little differently. There are many options when you visit Cusco, The Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu. I had done a little research but honestly, not enough. I was planning my travels while still working in Bogotá and knowing …
After the Salar de Uyni and other mountain landscapes tour, Carrie & I flew back to La Paz, hopped on a bus for 4 hours and rode to Lake Titicaca. You can visit this enormous high altitude lake (over 14,000 feet) from the Bolivia side or the Peru side, but I had heard it was more picturesque from where we …
Querida Carrie- she is a dear friend who loves and has grown from her own travel experiences, and whose opinions I value. One factor in me moving to Colombia was her and her husband’s joint suggestion about it as a possibility for me to live and work. We decided on Bolivia because she hadn’t visited it during other SA travels …
Hola desde Panamá! Hello from Panama! I came to this Central American country for a short trip even though I will be leaving Bogota in only about a week. Why the need for a quick vacation? Well, as responsible and organized as I generally feel I am (brushing off my shoulders nonchalantly), I made a grievous mistake when I purchased …
I feel like I’ve developed a relationship with you, dear readers, and to maintain the transparency in this relationship, I have to be honest with you. I struggled during December, and it’s not because I was lonely at Christmas (which I wasn’t). My move to a much smaller city in the coffee region of Colombia was a bit tough. Yes …
Did you enjoy the mistakes, lessons learned, and funny stuff from my previous post? Here are some more… (it’s never-ending, really) Traffic, pollution, and a dramatic decrease in the desire to run……. so disappointing. I’m an ex-triathlete and still a big runner. In Colorado my passion was to run trails and I’d get lost in my mind, happy as a …
It’s Humble Pie Day. A few posts ago, I shared with you my thoughts of “Come what may, I will be.” And how much peace that mantra brought me, especially regarding trying to control my weather circumstances. Today it rained. ALL day. I woke up in my cozy albergue, having slept pretty well on a top bunk with about 15 …
I left La Faba in some light rain, and it became harder and windier as we climbed up through the hills to the next tiny, quaint town called O’Cebreiro (prounounced: Oh-thay-bray-AIR-oh). The Iglesia (church) de Santa Maria Real is one of the earliest surviving buildings on the Camino de Santiago, dating from the 9th century. I needed to …
Today I started slowly due to a sore right foot where my arch tightened up yesterday evening. I wasn’t too concerned, but needed to warm it up this morning so I didn’t do my usual “morning pace” which is pretty quick. It was a gorgeous, peaceful vineyard walk with hilly views. It was quite chilly this morning, my hands were …
Yes, 30 miles, which is about 50k. Wasn’t I just talking a couple days ago about less expectation and making new physical and mental pathways? I want to speak to this. It’s one of the main topics of my thinking, pondering, praying during my Camino journey. I have always been a go-getter, do-er, and I love to push myself. I …