After a two and half hour flight from Quito, we arrived at Baltra Island Airport. We knew that we'd be assessed a fee to enter the...

We hired an Uber to drive us to the lodge I had booked, just outside the Cotopaxi National Park. The fare was very reasonable for the...

We have been back from Ecuador for one week now and the laundry is done, we've stocked back up on food and are slowly putting away the...

We left San Jose around 10am for a 5 hour trip to Samara. Originally, I had intended to take the ferry from Puntarenas to Montezuma and...

We flew nonstop from Dulles to San Jose International airport in Costa Rica. There is only one nonstop on United from Dulles per week,...

Our flight from Belgrade was short but it was raining when we got to Sarajevo. We took a taxi to our hotel near the old town. Traffic...

We spent 4 nights in Belgrade with a day trip to Novi Sad. Belgrade was quite a surprise. It was a challenge to find our hotel as it is...

Well as it happens it was very important that we had a smartphone with us as we left Romania. We spent our last night in Romania at a...

Yes, the smartphone is ubiquitous in Romania, as it is throughout the world – but here you just about can’t get around without one. And...

My impression of Bucharest after admittedly a brief stay is that it is a recovering democracy. We have traveled to several former...

Our trip to Bucharest was uneventful - just a long day of travel. We took a cab from the airport as it was after 7pm by the time we got...