Seven counties, eleven weeks, 17,610.0 miles (28,331.04 km or .71 times around the earth), $2,080.07. Of course I could have spent less (a lot less) than I did but it was important for me to balance cost, comfort, experience (“obligatory South American border crossing by bus”) and especially time efficiency. And I must add…
Tag: South America
Life, Love & the Pursuit of País Número 7 (Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay)
Buenos Aires is quite lovely with its European air and delicious food but it is still a large capital city after all and sometimes a respite is needed away from all the hustle and bustle. And I know the perfect place that will be a complete 180 from that and to boot will provide another…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Taking a Chance (Santiago, Chile and surrounding areas)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do…Explore. Dream. Discover. So as I head to Chile’s sprawling capital, I keep this Mark Twain quote in mind and allow myself to be open to the universe and all possibilities…
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of One More Night? (San Pedro de Atacama, Chile)
I think that I am finally getting a handle on this learning to go with the flow travel thing. I had not booked a place in advance for San Pedro de Atacama so when my new friends tell me about the place that they had booked, I decided that I would come along and stay…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of a Dreamy Landscape (Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia)
Maybe I saw it first on Instagram or on some photography website but however it happened, Salar de Uyuni occupies a high spot on my wanderlist. But even with all the pictures I have seen, I am not prepared for how amazing it will be in person. So here is my photo homage…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of “Manifest Destiny”? (Nuestra Señora de La Paz and Copacabana, Bolivia)
I know that people are trying to be helpful but it really isn’t when they send articles to me about how unsafe La Paz is for a solo female traveler…days before I head to this place…by myself.
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Great Ceviche and Pisco (Lima, Peru)
So I think it is well established now that I am REALLY into eating and there is no way that I can go to Peru and not visit Lima, right? I hear it’s the culinary capital down in South America…and I might as well sample some of the local libations.
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Enchantment (Cusco, Peru)
Well this is an interesting turn of events, I might actually be enjoying plane rides rather than merely tolerating them as the fastest way to get somewhere. And no other way to describe it but I loved the flight from Lima over the Andes to Cusco. To top it all off, it’s the first time…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Living Up to the Hype (Machu Picchu and Sacred Valley, Peru)
After summiting Mount Kilimanjaro in 2014, I need somewhere else to occupy the top spot on my wanderlist…and a contender emerges. The highly photographed and oft-described as mystical, spiritual place called Machu Picchu. And off I go to find out for myself what it really is like…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Charles Darwin’s Legacy (Galápagos Islands, Ecuador)
I am a serious nerd and I will make no apologies for it. I love science and think Charles Darwin is the man…so of course, a trip to the Galápagos is on the South American itinerary!! Well it almost wasn’t…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Change (Quito, Ecuador)
I’ll be honest – this whole not planning things and going with the flow is so antithetical to my way of being. But this trip and Quito showed me that it is the unexpected surprises and connections that make life so beautiful and amazing…perhaps I can learn to let go of control..maybe a little.
A must do? Bus ride/border crossing (Colombia/Ecuador)
I heard from many people that I need to do the backpacker thing and do at least one long bus ride/border crossing in South America. It’s a rite of passage and I think it would be nice to be able to know that I could do it and do it solo.
