By Gloria Ellis Last school year, my family of four had the awesome opportunity to travel North and South America for several months! I look back on that time with a sense of disbelief that, less …
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La Suiza, Costa Rica
So, we made it to Costa Rica, much to our relief! We arrived in the wee hours of Thursday morning and caught a taxi to a studio apartment we’d reserved close to the airport, just to have a place to …
Mexico City Airport
You would think that, after the trials and tribulations of Puno, Peru would be done with challenging us. You would be very wrong. Our flight from Cusco to Lima, on Viva Air, was easy. Their seats …
Cusco, Peru (and Machu Picchu)!
After the stress of being robbed in Puno, staying ten nights in an apartment in Cusco offered us much-needed space and time to decompress. The relief we all felt at being allowed on the train, and …
Uros Islands, Lake Titicaca, Peru
This is a tough travel journal entry to write because, although we loved our time on a floating island of Lake Titicaca, our time in the area ended very badly. We flew from Lima to Juliaca (near …
Lima, Peru
Last Saturday, we left our hostel in Guatemala City very early for our 5:40 a.m. flight to Lima, with a layover in Mexico City. When we finally landed in Peru, 11 hours later, we were all pretty …