After three months in South America, where we had delicious but for the most part non-spicy food, we arrived in Mexico — land of Picante! We decided to scribble out our totally biased, no-holds-barred commets of the joints where we gorged on tacos and tostadas. There’s a lot more than just Mexican food in Playa del …
Guatapé Colombia is a not-to-be-missed day trip from Medellin. The quaint town is a cheerfully, very colorful but sleepy destination that is popular with Colombians looking for a break for the crowded city. Your first encounter when nearing Guatapé is the star attraction to the area: La Piedra Del Peñol (the rock of Guatapé) . An …
We took the Quito Free Walking Tour about 2 weeks into our visit to Quito, Ecuador. In retrospect we wish that it would have been our first stop. Here’s why . . . This is as comprehensive a city tour as I have taken and paid handsomely. For those that haven’t done a “free” walking …
One of our favorite hikes in Yosemite is up the Mist Trail, which is one of the ways to get to Half Dome. It’s exhilarating to climb the slippery steps (maybe a little more fun on the way up than on the way down). We typically hike to the base of Half Dome, look up at …
My favorite day in Sorrento was a complete surprise. I read plenty of guide books, watched all of the travel channel shows and thumbed through magazines before heading to the Almafi coast, but nothing really prepared me for Pontone. Or, more accurately, the hike to Pontone. My husband and I started out taking the ferry from …
Nothing like 24 hours in a cramped airplane to create a strong sense of disorientation. That’s how we were delivered in Bangkok at 11:45 p.m. Tired and not sure at all where we were going. Happily most signs had English words below the Thai scripts, and most of the time the translation is accurate or …