Category: Travel

The Lure of Peru

For all of my life, I have been fascinated by South America.  As a teenager, I loved to read about adventurers who travelled deep into the Amazon jungle or high amid the Andes.

When I first saw pictures of the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, it instantly moved to the top of my wishlist of places to visit.  At that time, travel to the area was far less common than today.  Machu Picchu had only 120,000 visitors in 1982.  That number has risen dramatically in the years since, with over 1 million visitors seeing the site in 2012.  The Peruvian government has now instituted a daily cap of 2500 visitors per day to protect the site from its own popularity.

To celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary, my wife Jan and I wanted to travel somewhere exotic and far away. We settled on Istanbul, Turkey, and booked our trip immediately. Despite our impulsive decision, the choice proved to be an excellent one. Of all the places that I have traveled, no destination has delivered an experience like Istanbul. Our week in the city was everything you hope for in travel.

I happened across some very nice San Miguel de Allende photos posted today over at TravelBlog. Click on the “more” caption under the first photo to open a window for easy navigation through the shots. For more photos, you can visit our travelogue from a 2004 trip to Guanajuato and San Miguel.

The bloggers, Carlos y Amber, also have posted photos and stories from several other parts of Mexico.

I’m just returning from a week-long vacation in Belize. (See my Photos from Belize.)
Snorkeling, Maya ruins, and a helicopter tour over the Cockscomb Basin were the highlights.
If they came out OK I’ll soon post some underwater photos from snorkeling at Glover’s Reef.

Belize was awesome! Thanks FocalClick for sponsoring the trip!