One of the great joys of travel is discovering the kindness of strangers. Almost everyone that we have met on our journey has been...

It was 9 am and when I looked down at my iWatch and it said that we had walked three miles. Three miles is the exact distance from the...

You might think that when hiking among active volcanoes that the most dangerous thing would be volcanoes. You would be wrong. And so, we...

One of the reasons we took a noisier street room ay Hostal Chasqui was to see the animals run down the street on their way to the famous...

Our host at Hostal Chasqui, Roberto, told us that the best outdoor activity in the Otavalo area was hiking around Laguna Cuicocha, a...

I knew that our stay in Otavalo would be different when at check in, our host Roberto warned “If you see the Shaman he will be drunk,...

On our last day in the rough port city of Buenaventura we decided to venture out of the small tourist center for a meal in the one...

We said our goodbyes to Alberto and his family in Coffee Country and headed off to the Pacific coast. The whales were still off the coast...

Our trip to coffee country with Alberto and his family was off to a great start, despite the fifteen hour drive the previous day. The...

Excited to be going back to Bogota! Civilization! No rooster wake up calls and restaurants with menus! The departure time wasn’t printed...