Having avoided Huacachina‘s famous party scene, we managed to get up bright and early to grab breakfast at our hotel before leaving for our 8:30 shuttle bus pickup. We were taking a detour from the main Peru Hop bus route to take a sightseeing flight over the mysterious Nazca Lines. Leaving Huacachina The drive from […]
After our short stay in Paracas, we headed inland to the desert oasis of Huacachina. Based on our research, this place exists for two purposes – 1. playing in the sand dunes on buggies and sandboards and 2. partying. While we weren’t particularly interested in number 2., the videos we had seen of the dune […]
After our extended time in Lima, we were well and truly ready to explore the rest of Peru. At 7am a shuttle bus picked us up from our hotel and took us to meet the Peru Hop bus which would complete our escape from Lima. The destination for the day was Paracas, on the coast […]
We planned for almost a week in Lima after our Galapagos cruise and island hopping adventures. Although based on our research it didn’t look like we would need that long to see the highlights, we figured we would also have some downtime and enjoy some time in a city after so much nature. Note – […]
After our Galapagos cruise was over, our adventures in the islands were not. We had planned almost a week of Galapagos island hopping to see some places not covered on the cruise. This would also give us a bit of an idea about what life is like in the Galapagos islands. Note – links on […]
See Part 1 of our Galapagos Cruise adventure here. Espanola Island When researching which Galapagos Islands cruise to take, we realized that we would be in the islands at the right time of year to see the waved albatrosses on Espanola Island, so we made it a high priority to find an itinerary that included […]
After our short time in Quito, it was time to head to the Galapagos Islands for the first big adventure of our trip – an eight day cruise on the Solaris. First – a quick note about the photographs in this post. They are not the photos I was hoping to use. Our AirBnB apartment […]
After a couple of years of planning, much discussion, frantic preparation and a round of farewells, it felt surreal to be in Heide’s mom’s car headed to the airport to start our RTW adventure. The first major activity of our trip was two weeks in the Galapagos Islands, but on the way there we planned […]
While the fun part of planning for a trip is coming up with an itinerary, there are many other no less important RTW preparation tasks that must be done before you can set off on a grand adventure. This post is by no means a comprehensive how-to. I’ll share some of the issues we faced […]
I’m writing this post from what is effectively the first AirBnB stay of our Big Trip, although we haven’t left Houston yet. We moved out of our house about a week and a half ago when our tenants moved in, and we leave for South America in a few days to start the adventure – […]
Two Aussie/US dual citizens and one American sharing stories, pics and recommendations based on their family travels. Made it 10 months through a planned 14 month RTW adventure before COVID interrupted. Now settled in Brisbane, Australia waiting for the world to open up again so the adventures can continue.
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