Travel Logs

After our final day in Lima and our first night in Cusco, James, Jessica, and I awoke in Cusco around 7:00 am on Monday morning. Not long after, our friend Marshall arrived on that first early morning flight out of Lima. He was exhausted but he knew we had a big day ahead. Our lodging […]

As I mentioned in my previous post, we stayed our first two nights in Lima and our first day was really immersing ourselves in the heart of modern-day Lima, a huge city, and the capital city of Peru. Well, when we awoke on Sunday morning, it was time to discover what Lima was like not […]

I’m excited about being in Peru. Before coming here, I read a book, which I am finished during the journey. It is titled Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams, a modern day travel writer and historian who followed the Inca Trail and retold the story of Hiram Bingham’s discovery as he walked in […]

I have long wanted to go to Peru and more generally South America. Until this year, my only experience in “Latin America” was a few cruise ports in Mexico. Then, two months ago, I ventured to Guatemala for a long and enjoyable weekend to visit my friend Kyle who has been living there since January. […]

My first 24 hours in Guatemala were fantastic, as detailed in my previous post about discovering Culture and Connections in Guatemala City. After I had arrived into Guatemala City on Thursday evening, we were now heading to Antigua late on Friday morning after our visit to the Universidad de Francisco Marroquin. The shuttle we booked […]

When we arrived in Antigua on Friday afternoon after our initial day in Guatemala City, one of our first stops was to Wicho & Charlie’s, a local tour company. My friend Kyle had used them a few months ago when he did an overnight, 2-day hike of the Fuego and Acatenango volcanos. Kyle described it […]

On Thursday, May 2, I landed in Guatemala. This is the 20th country I have been in and my first in Central America. I came here to visit my friend Kyle Huwa, who has been here since January, with the main purpose of learning Spanish. He has stayed with a host family in Antigua, as […]

On Monday, we awoke in Jerusalem for the final time of this trip. It was another early morning Israeli buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant before we went downstairs to the conference room to hear a wonderful presentation by Miri Eisin, a former Colonel in the Israel Defense Force (IDF). She is also a Zionist. […]

On Sunday morning, August 12, a group of us woke up early to go visit the Dome of the Rock. This is the area above the Temple Mount that is one of the most sacred spaces to Islam. We were above what was The Temple Mount. This is the site of Solomon’s great temple, which […]

On Saturday morning, August 10, we had an early wake-up in Jerusalem since we had a lot on the agenda (of course it wasn’t as early as my 5:15am wake-up the day before!) On this day, we were to hear firsthand from a Palestinian journalist as well as two young Palestinian men who live in […]