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For our second day trip around Salta we headed towards the south into the country’s white wine country. Unlike the previous day, this tour had fewer stops, but got us back to the hotel in a timely manner. The trip was relaxed and simple. We drove through the Quebrada (ravine) de Cafayate. We sampled [...]

On the second day in Salta, Natalie and I got out of the city limits to explore higher grounds in the north. The day before we had settled on doing two day trips in the region with a local tour company whose name I cannot remember at the moment, but will have to [...]

Choosing a destination outside of Buenos Aires was difficult once we decided that Patagonia probably wasn’t the best idea. Too little time and my limited budget makes for zero glacier hiking. However, if you ask anyone in country and they’ll tell you almost everything is AMAZING. Of course locals gushed about the expansive beauty [...]

Before I went to Buenos Aires, I had done a little bit of guide book, blog and news reading to better acquaint me with one of South America’s largest cities. The more I read, the more excited and interested I became. This particular article in the New York Post almost lead me to having mixed [...]

Scattered ashes into the sea and a nice shaded bench is the way I had always planned for remains to be handled in the event of an untimely death. Considering I typically don’t think about death on a regular basis, I actually don’t even have these last requests on paper. Eek! I’m sorry — I’m [...]

Some of you are probably wondering how this whole Argentina trip came about. I admit, it wasn’t on my radar at the start of this year. I hadn’t been dreaming, dying to go or planning it out for ages. It actually didn’t come about until a few days after my birthday when the girl holding [...]

My mind and eyes are on several different maps at the moment, so if I seem a bit disoriented these days -ho hum. It’s all part of the organizational process needed to plan these great escapes.
I thought I sort of had trip planning for Argentina all worked out, but I think Nats and I [...]

This is one of the many views of the mountains within Glacier National park. This photo and all the others can not do the justice it deserves. This is a place that must be seen live, with your own eyes and in the flesh. The crisp, fresh, air must be inhaled in person. I do [...]

Rarely do I get excited from being tagged in goofy Facebook photos, but I was overjoyed when Basia tagged me in this one today. Her caption read as follows:
“Premiera w National Geographic juz 14 maja! Sama nie mogę w to uwierzyć!”
Basically this article will be appearing in National Geographic’s Polish version. Basia was one [...]

You may already know this about me. I like to eat. In Kauai, as it so happens, I managed to eat a lot. The most pleasing items to my palate were the frozen treats. There were no real stand-outs on my little dining tour, but lots of ‘A’ for effort and interesting pieces with [...]