well we made it to tikal after spending a couple of nights in san ignacio. Tikal is right up with there with some of the most amazing places that I have seen in my life. The spread of buildings involves 6 major temples, the tallest of which shoots into the sky at well over 200 ft. Although the temples are incredible it may be the setting that truly makes Tikal so special. It is crazy to walk through the dense jungle and suddenly.....BAMN there is huge temple in front of you. It just smacks you in the face. Then you travel [View Full Entry]

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Hello - Well it has been about 6 months since our last trip. We spent about 6 months at home recharging the batteries and pulling together a little money. We are only doing a short three week trip starting in mexico and then heading into belize, to guatamla, back to belize then back to mexico. We spent 2 glorious days running the white sands of tulum. We had an incredible beach front cabana that allowed us unending access to the beach which we took full advantage of. We had a couple of nights with a little too much of the drink [View Full Entry]

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this is without spell check and was written a blistering speed so please excuse the numerous errors. We just watched the sunset over Lake Titicaca, colors painted rapidly before our eyes. New shades with every sip of beer. It´s our second sunset here, and our second in Bolivia. And we are enjoying being on top of the world. Although, we have felt this high (13000+ ft) at least for the past few weeks.... After leaving Cusco and the excitement of the Inca Trail we headed way down to sea level; Lima. We spent a few days enjoying the city and the [View Full Entry]

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this is a try to post some photos from our machu picchu trip. [View Full Entry]

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it has been a while since the last entry and much has happened. we headed north through argentina and have made our way into peru. some highlights: horse riding in san lorenzo, traveling up to tilcara a magical little village in the north, mountian biking with giant cactus, an epic bus journey from argentina to chile to peru over 40 hrs straight, seeing a convent that has been closed to the public for 4 centuries, and finally arriving in cusco to see the famous machu pichu!! salta - a beautiful city of little colonial squares dotted with churches and other historic [View Full Entry]

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sorry about the false one the other day. blog to come but until then here are photos. [View Full Entry]

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to continue from before...we spent 3 or beautiful days in bariloche. it is a magically gifted city surrounded by a huge lake to one side and then rising up to a section of the andes that is about picture perfect. we had many plans for trekking, biking, horseback riding, and kayaking. unfortunately the weather was not being very supportive. we set out the first day with big plans but spent the day wondering the town with some english chaps we had met on our epic boat journey. there was no heartbreak for alana, bariloche is the chocolate capital of the argentina [View Full Entry]

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so we have been a bit lax on updating our little bog. we have been traveling all over and have found little time to sit down and write up whats been happening south of the equator but today from Bariloche we felt was finally time to tell you what has been happening. we got into bariloche last night at about 9pm then I sat down to watch the ncaa championship game. I am an avid illini fan and had to witness a wonderful season come to a disappointing end as my team was defeated in a hard fought game. we watched [View Full Entry]

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alana typed up a fantastic little thing but it doesn´t seem to be posting. so in the interim I am going to to post a bunch of photos from puerto moreno glacier and parque nacional torres del paine. [View Full Entry]

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I am writting fast so sorry for the spelling errors. we just spent three beautiful but cold days in el calafate. it is basically a gateway town to parque nacional las galciers, the home of perito moreno glacier. it is difficult to imagine what the glacier looks like except to stand in front of it, open mouth, gasp, say a couple of explatives, repeat. the glacier rises up out of the water 180 feet and is roughly 20km deep. for those who have been to the grand canyon and looked over the edge and sort of felt humbled by the experience, [View Full Entry]

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