Riding the Machu Picchu recovery train
As our Inca Rail train pulls of Machu Picchu town, I realize my hands are…well, they’re not clean. There’s Incan dirt under my nails. Also, my jeans are spattered...
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Sacred Valley, Peru travel guide – The YEH, MEH, NAHs
If Machu Picchu vanished, retrieved by Incan extra-terrestrials, the Sacred Valley would still be a top Peru destination. We visited in mid-March, at the tail end of Peru’s...
If these walls could talk – Machu Picchu photo essay
Before I got to Machu Picchu, Peru, I knew I wanted to keep people out of most of my photos. Including people in travel photos can deliver a sense of scale, time, place, or...
The innocents abroad
Unless he was a much better secret keeper than his writings suggest, Mark Twain never tramped through the jungly ruins of Machu Picchu, “discovered” shortly after his...
Blue times at Machu Picchu
When your family is going through rough times like mine is, you read into everything each person says, because there’s so much being left unsaid. Shortly before Todd and I...
Sketch at Machu Picchu
After the intense hike up Huayna Picchu, and the harrowing rain-soaked hike back down, we got a respite of sunshine to sit and rest at Machu Picchu. So I drew it. Looking up...
If you don’t like the weather at Machu Picchu, wait 5 minutes
This is not the view that you want to see when visiting Machu Picchu. Not at all.
The train journey to Machu Picchu
Traveling to Peru at the end of the rainy season in March meant that we would be risking some serious damp downsides. Instead of hiking the steep and expensive Inca Trail through...
