Floreana Island is famous for a black sand beach and a dark human history. A couple of hippies – the Wittmer’s – indirectly managed to entice a self-proclaimed Baroness and her two lovers to find their way there and so ensued a bizarre chain of events which now have a…
humanoid wildlife
oh, high Otavalo
/ 17/05/2013Otavalo is the largest of the Andean markets, taking up the Plaza de Los Ponchos and several more blocks on a Saturday. Even though we weren’t there on Saturday, the plaza still buzzed with markets and shopping was fruitful. I was surprised by a stall vendor who appeared from under…
can’t catch a break in Cali
/ 17/05/2013Cali is a salsa hub in Colombia. If you get there on a good night. Which we didn’t. Time in this previously rather dangerous, drug-economy city, was largely spent acting as a good luck shopping charm for Stacy as we hit the local bus to Jardin Plaza for ok-large-cities-have-some-advantages, the…
very violeta Mérida
/ 03/04/2013After 16 hours on a bus through three checkpoints, self-catered lunch at a toilet block on the side of the road and the final hours spent winding up and down the Andes, we reached Mérida in western Venezuela. I was hamstrung for available activities by a lack of funds due…
passing time in Panamá City
/ 22/03/2013After 58 days on tour, it all closed out in Panamá City. On our way into town we stopped for a couple of hours at the Canal to see massive grain cargo ships pass through the Miraflores lock, dropping 27 feet in mere minutes. Engineering lasting 100 years come 2014…