O lixo!

Nos quase 6 meses que viajamos pela América do Sul, testemunhamos que um dos maiores problemas dos países de terceiro mundo é o LIXO. É incrível a quantidade de lixo jogado na natureza. Abismos, leitos de rios secos, praias e desertos são os lugares preferidos para se livrar dos dejetos, muitas vezes recicláveis, mas que a falta de infraestrutura e …

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Failing into Golden

The frugality experiment has been really eye-opening. We’ve been really good about not buying anything non-essential while we are sitting around Winter Park during a snowstorm. But as they do, the bills starting coming in. We hardly drive the bus at all here, but both the bus insurance and registration were due this month, as […]

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Mexico

Our final morning in the USA was not off to a great start. “So. Have you seen the passports?” Well, the last time either of us remembered seeing them was two days earlier in a hotel room in San Luis Obispo. Several hours drive away, on the other side of Los Angeles. Several deep breaths […]

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Pacific Coast Highway

definitely taco de ojo   Our next few days of driving were absolute bliss.  Our last month or so in mexico we stumbled upon the term “taco de ojo”.  Literally translated as “eye taco”, but used like “eye candy” north of the border.  We found ourselves using the phrase often as …

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Motorcycling North America

We’re gallivanting North America. It’s official. Our September trip down the Pacific Coast, November loop of Arizona, and the last two weeks spent in the Southwest have lead us here – to road maps, an atlas, and national park books… planning a … Continue reading →

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Cartagena

The UNESCO World heritage site Cartagena is the undisputed Queen of the Caribbean world. Its mystic old town is surrounded by an ancient impeccable city wall, which contains a labyrinth of cobbled streets, antique balconies with exuberant flowers, medieval buildings and places full of live.

 
In Cartagena’s quarter Bocagrande with its impressive skyline are fancy beaches and many hotels of all categories – this makes it the number one touristic destination in Colombia. In addition Cartagena has a nice environment with marvelous island which are protected by a national park and the active volcano Lodo El Totumo, where you can bath in the mud of its crater. But the cosmopolitan city with more than 1 million inhabitants has also its shadows like slums with unbearable poverty and violent crime.
Few kilometers southeast of Cartagena is a second UNESCO world heritage, the sleepy little town Mompòs in the hot swamps of the lower river Rio Magdalena.



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South Africa (part02) VIDEO

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