How NOT to cross the border from Antigua, Guatemala to Copán, Honduras
After 3.5 months in Guatemala, spanning mid-June of 2014 to early October, it was finally time for me to leave my beloved city of…
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Guatemalan Independence & Xela Feria 2014
Guatemala first celebrated its independence from Spain on September 15th of 1821. Guatemala now celebrates its independence for about two weeks straight. It’s a…
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Backing Up Photos While Backpacking
In this post we’ll go through a simple and relatively inexpensive method of backing up photos and videos that you can use while you’re…
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Tajumulco: Trekking to the Top of Central America
On September 27 and 28 of 2014, I trekked/climbed to the summit of Volcán Tajumulco (13,851 feet / 4,222 m above sea level) –…
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BORDER RUN! CA-4 Visa Renewal from Xela, Guatemala to Tapachula, Mexico
After nearly three months spent traveling in Guatemala and El Salvador in 2014, my 90-day tourist visa for the Central America-4 (CA-4) countries (Guatemala,…
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How to Summit Guatemala’s Volcan Santa Maria for Fifty Cents
It may be a new world record for dirt cheap, yet, enviable adventure travel activities: I summitted Guatemala’s Volcan Santa Maria – elevation 3,772 m…
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Travel Health: Typhoid Immunization
If you’re traveling internationally in anything resembling a developing country, you should probably get vaccinated for typhoid fever. It’s simple to do, and it’s…
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Mexico City: One Day in the Centro Historico
If you’re visiting Mexico City for the first time, the obvious place to begin your trip is in the Centro Historico, where you can see…
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Quintana Roo, Mexico: shot on 35mm film in 2009.
I spent a month in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico and surrounding in early 2009 with the people and animals you see below. All pictures…
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Renting a Car in the USA: A Few Things to Consider
In my opinion, a car is often more liability than benefit to a solo traveler in most cases. I hate worrying about parking the…
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Photography at Elevation: Autumn in Telluride, Colorado (2012)
Telluride, Colorado is pretty on the ugliest day imaginable, but add a bit of sunlight and aspens in gradients of green, orange, yellow and…
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Celebrating D-Day on Hel Peninsula, Poland: Travelogue
Just because World War II’s D-Day invasion didn’t happen in Poland’s Hel Peninsula, and didn’t occur in the month of August, doesn’t mean you can’t…
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Four Days in Krakow (Poland 2012)
We arrived in Kraków late in the evening after a few hours in a bus from town of Zakopane after a few memorable days…
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A Day Trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp (Poland 2012)
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and execution camp represents some of the worst humanity has had to offer. It served as the largest concentration camp established…
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Zakopane, Giewont, Morskie Oko and the Tatra Mountains (Poland 2012)
It was August high season and the mountain town of Zakopane (elevation 800-1000m) was characteristically mobbed by vacationing Polish families and stag/hen groupings. All…
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A Short Visit to Warsaw (Poland 2012)
Warsaw’s charms aren’t immediately apparent, but that’s not really Warsaw’s fault. The Nazis destroyed 85% of the city in WWII in revenge for the failed…
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A Quick Stop in Vilnius, Lithuania (2012)
We arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania (population 550,000, founded in the 1300s) in the late morning after a four-hour bus ride from Riga, Latvia and proceeded…
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Latvia 2012: Riga (8/3-8/5)
Still feeling a bit ill from our party hostel experience almost two days prior, we happily left Estonia’s capital of Tallinn on the morning…
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