Adventuriety
Every time and I mean every time Scott and I start trip planning he happens upon a remote location in the country we are visiting that involves trekking, you know long hikes and tents. My usual response is positive, “Okay, I’ll do it. It sounds like an experience.” All the while I have my fingers crossed behind my back, my body is already aching at the...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
This is Scott. This is my first Adventuriety blog. Our Peruvian experience has been full of exploration and wonder. It has been part of my travel joy to just show up to a place without having a whole lot of knowledge. Grant and Ashley’s 5th grade teacher Laurie Johnson, is a master educator. She taught the kids to “First wonder, then ask google.”...
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Adventuriety
Today was our 5th day in Peru and it would be a practice hike for our upcoming four day Salkantay Trek. Luis, from Peru Days 1 and 2 would be our guide for the grueling all day hike up and over Hatun Luychu “big deer” mountain pass at over 14,500 feet and back down into the Sacred Valley with a stop at the Inca ruins of Huchuy...
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Adventuriety
The plan for day four in Peru was a mountain bike adventure extravaganza! We started out early again for the ninety minute drive to the Valley of Urubamba where we would meet our guide, sign our lives away (technical mountain biking skills required!) and get our gear. We met Luis, our guide and not the same person as Luis from Peru day one and day two,...
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Recuperiety
This is Aida and the heart of Casa de Aida, a B&B in Calca, a little town in the Sacred Valley. The highlight of one of our very busy days in Peru was the company of Aida and her husband Kinkulla and the calm oasis of their home. Casa de Aida is a B&B with rave reviews but you can also arrange to have...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Our second day in the Cusco area started early with a 7:30 am pickup for a full day of both archaeological sights as well as cultural stops and everything in between which is going to make for a long blog. Luis was our guide again and he was bound and determined to make up for our late start the day before. He told us, “I...
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Adventuriety / Recuperiety
This year of travel has been a constant learning and growing process; if it’s not one thing it’s another. One lesson I have learned recently is that it is entirely possible to pack more activity, living, stuff, whatever you want to call it into a certain time frame than seems like a good idea. The trick is, you don’t think about it too much, you...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
On that fateful hike over a year ago when Scott and I decided to dust off our dream of a year of travel with our kids and actually attempt to make it a reality, our conversation went in many directions with a lot of interrupting and laughing and excitement about the adventure that might be waiting for us. One of things we really laughed about was...
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Adventuriety
My running partner was the first to mention Australia Zoo to me when I started asking her about the “not to be missed” places around her husband’s home town, Caloundra. Her advice was the Australia Zoo, you know the zoo that Steve Irwin founded and his family operates? Actually, I had no idea that Steve Irwin founded a zoo (his dad started it with a few crocodiles),...
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Adventuriety
Scott and I spent almost three months in Australia on our honeymoon over seventeen years ago. We had just graduated from college, we were madly in love and had both thrown caution to the wind, surprised a few folks, and tied the knot. It’s a great story and some of you know it, as do our kids, so it’s not too shocking. Here we are, finally...
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