William The Rebel

This is the last blog from Peru, assuming our flight tonight goes out OK. Yesterday we did what we thought was an overtly touristy thing by ...

And so we have now returned to Lima after our Lake Titicaca adventures. The nine-hour bus trip up from Cuzco to Puno was somewhat uneventful...

Tomorrow is the next step of our adventure and the most challenging. Lake Titicaca is very remote, being in Peru but sandwiched between Chil...

Today was the Machu Picchu experience. Our guide (Ruben) was a passionate but sincere advocate for Peruvian socialism, environmental protect...

The Inca trail hike went very well even tho Sharon kissed the earth a couple of times. It was a seven hour hike and quite strenuous at time...

Tomorrow we leave on the hike to Machu Picchu and shortly thereafter on the kayaking adventure. Not sure when the next post will be after th...

Yesterday was one of the highlights of the trip so far, an all-day mountain bike expedition through the Sacred Valley. This is a commercial ...

Cuzco is definitely a William/Sharon-type place. We can be travel posers yet again and pretend that we are aging-hippy backpackers. Lots of ...

These are pictures (on sites) to some of the things we saw in the Amazon basin. We had no real chance to see the really exotic staff such as...

OK this is the first report from the Amazon. This trip is certainly not for the faint of heart but we are surviving. The lodge, four hours u...

This is a quickie. Flight out from Houston to Lima was a veritable cattle truck and two hours late. Not up to Continentals usual standards. ...

Blog the first …. I shall probably not figure out the formatting right away and I certainly am not going to wordsmith these posts to make th...