Well, I'm back in Peru! I didn't exactly plan this but when have I ever planned anything? I am in the city of Cusco, where I spent New Year with my buddy Tim when he came to visit. So why come back here? I got an e-mail from my buddy Tamir, the owner of The Point Hostel in Lima where I used to work, and he told me he opened a new hostel here in Cusco and my buddy Ben is owning/managing. I know Ben well from Lima and from traveling together a little in Brazil for...

I am still in La Paz, one of South America's most interesting cities and also the highest capital city in the world at 12,000 feet. That's the same altitude as the highest ski lifts I used in Aspen Colorado! The city sits in what appears to be a big cereal bowl, surrounded by hills on all sides, dotted red by the brick homes that house the poor, and that lead up to the high planes and Bolivia's poorest city, El Alto. Most residents there don't even have running ...

The World's Most Dangerous Road, or as Bolivians more affectionately refer to it, Death Road, was named in 1995 by the Inter-American Development Bank. Their simple measurement? Deaths per mile! This is long before anyone thought tourists would pay to hurl themselves kamikaze style down the twisty, dirt road that has no safety barriers and drop offs in some areas as much as 3000 FEET! When a vehicle or mountain biker find their way off the edge, death is pretty m...

James, Marie, and I teamed up with Damian and Nevina, a couple from England, and another American, Jordan, to round out our group of 6 needed to fill a Toyota Landcruiser and take our tour of the Salar. And it was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! The first day lead us to a very poor village that subsists soley by mining salt. And at $1 per 110 lb. bag, it's a lot of work for almost nothing. Next we visited the Salt Hotel, a real hotel in the middle of nowhere constucted entir...

Well after 2 flat tires on the bus to get here, I finally made it to Uyuni, home to the world's largest salt plain, Salar de Uyuni. Uyuni is a small desert town that sits at 12,000 feet(3600m) in altitude and although pleasant by day, becomes absolutely frigid the split second after the sun sets. I am wearing almost everything from my backpack to keep warm...which is nice cause the pack is far lighter...plus a wool hat and some gloves I recently purchased for th...