When you travel, you just don't know if there will be a power failure. This is when a headlamp becomes a very useful gadget. It makes no...

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These travel trousers take you from the plane, to the museum, to the hiking trail, and to dinner.

This Osprey Hiking Backpack served me very well on the Inka Trail in June 2018. I had the pack fitted to me at REI and it felt great.

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I'm sure I'll have to use a thesaurus to describe the grandeur of St. Petersburg. I just kept saying, "Oh.My.God". The palaces and art...

I condensed my trip to Moscow because I wasn't sure I wanted to go there and I thought it might be dangerous. I was wrong on both counts....

Tallinn is a two-hour ferry ride across the Bay of Finland from Helsinki. It was a charming place, though I suspect it's better when it's...

I arrived in Helsinki in a heat wave. The locals seemed completely delighted with the warm weather and kept jumping into the Baltic Sea....

Lake Manyara National Park gets mixed reviews. We had a great tour with lots and lots of animal sightings so I have no complaints.

I did not, and probably never will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. It's not technically too challenging, but it's really a high altitude issue for...

Zanzibar is a beautiful tropical island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania. It's technically part of Tanzania, but they have...

So that's pronounced Ma-chu Peek-chu. And quinoa, by the way, is pronounced keen-OH-ah. That's according to some Inka descendants who...

2500 People see Machu Picchu every day. You make your way to Cuzco, then take a nice train to Aguas Calientes and spend the night. The...

June 6, 2018 My flight from Lima to Cuzco was fine, once we finally took off after sitting on the tarmac in Lima for two hours due to a...

The Inka people really had it going on and as a warning, please note that the following contains images of ancient erotic art. I've been...

We had a lovely 2 hour flight back to Cape Town. We got a good meal despite being on a smaller jet! We saw a pan and lots of wide open...

And finally, we got to the end of our tour. It had been a long 20 days. The good: seeing so many wild animals, meeting our fellow...

We had a night in Nata, Botswana which was very pleasant. Our little cottage had a view of the bush complete with springbok, a bathtub...

The Okavango Delta is an inland delta. What this means is that the Okavango River flows out through an immense grassland and disappears...