I had a lovely, if yet another exhausting day. Today I traveled to Udine, where I met my old neighbor and good friend Graziella and her...

I am still in Italy. The past six days have been dedicated to family (and Sampdoria). There has not been much of blog interest, and few...

The cold that started a couple of days ago took a turn for the worse and turned to bronchitis. Not the ideal way to feel when you need to...

The return to Tbilisi was long and tedious, with lines at the border quite longer than on the way down. No time therefore to explore the...

We would have loved to spend some time in the beautiful mountain area around Dilijan, but time is scarce, so today we took an all-day...

So, you may be wondering, what did we do today? Well, we drove and we drove, and we waited in lines. But ultimately, here we are, in a...

Every vacation needs some chill time. Today was that day, We slept in for one, then strolled leisurely through the streets of Sighnaghi,...

Pheeww!! What a day! Partly amazing, partly aggravating, great overall. We overnighted in Tbilisi. In order for us to drive the car into...

Once again, I was unable to get much sleep (3 hours), on account of the jetlag, so while Eric fared much better, when I woke up this...

Hello from Stepantsminda, Republic of Georgia. For those who are not quite sure where Georgia is located, it is in Southwest Asia,...

Humboldt Penguin National Reserve Pisco Elqui Nevado Tres Cruces N. P. Bahia Inglesa Chañaral Pan de Azucar N. P. Atacama Desert, near...

Santiago today: Sunny, 94 degrees. We walked, and we walked, but it wasn’t too bad. In the shade it was breezy and comfortable, in the...

Quick post today. We made it to Santiago, where we’ll be over the next couple of days. We arrived in town at rush hour and to reach our...

I wanted to post this only because I’d like to stay on the schedule of posting every day or every other day but, although we’ve been to...

Goodbye Patagonia. Our first ferry (a 5-hour ride from Caleta Gonzalo to Pichicolo) left right on time at 5PM. At sunset, from our ferry...

Yesterday we took a long detour to the town of Futaleufu, claiming to be the world’s premiere river rafting destination. Not that either...

Turnaround time. We have decided that Puerto Tranquilo should be the furthest point south of our journey. Window view of the town from...

We last wrote from Puerto Aysen. It’s ironic that Terry, my sister-in-law, had made a comment on our last post about a salmon on sale in...

Let’s start with a bit of history. Chilean Patagonia was inhabited only by local indigenous people until the early 1900s. In 1935, Chile...

Let’s start with yesterday. We spent our last day in Puerto Varas and took the opportunity to go halfway up Volcan Osorno. What an...