This is a tough travel journal entry to write because, although we loved our time on a floating island of Lake Titicaca, our time in the area ended very badly. We flew from Lima to Juliaca (near Lake Titicaca) last Tuesday morning. We arrived at the small airport in Juliaca and met the driver that [Read More]

Last Saturday, we left our hostel in Guatemala City very early for our 5:40 a.m. flight to Lima, with a layover in Mexico City. When we finally landed in Peru, 11 hours later, we were all pretty tired! Fortunately, going through immigration in Peru was a smooth process. We had considered renting a car in [Read More]

We left Antigua last Monday to take a shuttle to the lakeside town of Panajachel, Guatemala. We used EcoAdventures for our shuttle arrangements, as well as for our tour of Iximiche, and we found them to be mostly prompt and professional. We were scheduled for a 12:30 p.m. pick up, and they arrived about 20 [Read More]

I have really fallen in love with Guatemala! We’ve spent eight nights here, and we are so sad to leave. We had heard stories from people that made us feel a little nervous about our visit, but it really could not have been more wonderful. When we arrived at the Guatemala City airport from Costa [Read More]

We spent a beautiful six days on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica last week! We flew out of LAX on Thursday night and took an overnight flight to San Jose City, with a brief layover in Mexico City. It was a pretty exhausting day of travel that was then extended when we got our [Read More]