I left off on Day 20 of my upcoming five-week adventure to Turkey and the Caucasus. I was traveling across the border from Azerbaijan to Georgia, so I’ll pick it up from there. I’m spending a total of eleven nights in Georgia, and that’s a lot to cover. So this post is about the first five…
My trip to Turkey and the Caucasus includes five nights in Azerbaijan: four in Baku, the capital city, and one in the mountain town of Sheki, in the northwest of the country. The basic itinerary is set, but I have a lot of day-tour options I still need to decide on. I am using the…
The Caucasus — Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia — have never been on my radar, much less on my bucket list. So why am I going?
Here I am in Acapulco Airport waiting for my flight home after a week of bridge. The Sectional Tournament was a bit haphazard in the logistics, but the participants were a great deal of fun. I feel like I’ve made some new friends I hope to see at future bridge tournaments.
What do you do when you’ve been writing about your upcoming trip to Turkey, and now it turns out you’re going to Türkiye?
In my last post I shared my itinerary for my upcoming trip to Turkey and the Caucasus. Now here’s some detail about the Turkey portion.
Seems I just got back from South America, and I’m already just a few months away from my next adventure to Turkey and the Caucasus. I settled on my plans sooner than normal, because I was concerned about rising airline prices. And now it’s just about 3 1/2 months until I leave. So here’s the plan:
Visiting the Galápagos has been a dream of mine for a long time. Finally, I made it happen, and it exceeded my dreams in every way.
When AeroMexico emailed me to tell me that my flight home from Quito was canceled and they rebooked me a day later, my first thought was annoyance. But then I realized I was getting an extra day in Quito, and that seemed more like a good thing. And it was!
Arrival We arrived at Mariscal Sucre Quito International Airport, which opened in 2013, and after we got through immigration and customs, we met Celso, our tour leader for Ecuador, and David, who is training to be a tour leader for OAT. By the time we got to our hotel, it was nearly 8:00 pm. A long…
I’m in Quito, Ecuador, now, with only about a half hour before we leave on our first of two day’s adventures here — just barely enough time to share a little of our time in Cusco.
If you want to read all about Machu Picchu, there are a lot of books. There’s a very good article on Wikipedia. And a simple Google search will find you photos that are far better than the ones I took. I’m not going to write about Machu Picchu. Read about it elsewhere if you want. Instead,…