Flip Flop Caravan

I’ve been down in San Diego for the past week visiting family. Randomly, I ended up in a Smart and Final store in La Mesa where I came across…… INCA KOLA! I was dumbfounded. Inca Kola is practically the national beverage of Peru and just over a year ago I was sipping it from a [...]

What sounded like a fun, enjoyable hike to the peak behind Machu Picchu turned into a rather dangerous climb of insanity. We were excited! Sure we read the sign that said the hike was 1 hour, that you needed a heart to do it and that it was a steep path. Steep is not an [...]

After much struggle, Machu Picchu lay before us. Though you’d never know it given the crazy thick fog. While waiting for the fog to lift we jumped in line to get passes to hike the Waynapicchu trail (only 500 are handed out a day). With passes in hand and the fog lingering we opted to [...]

Excited to nail down our transportation to the entrance of Machu Picchu, we walked through Auguas Calientes to the bus station. I had no cash left so Bobbi and Conor bought the tickets – 14USD each – which left Conor out of cash as well. “No problem. We’ll just hit up the ATM and restock [...]

From Cusco, the next stop on the road to Machu Picchu is the mountain town of Auguas Calientes. To get there we took a 1.5 hr. cab ride north of Cusco to the city of Oyllentaytambo (which cost a whopping 40 soles = 14USD) The countryside was stunning. Switchback roads through snow-capped mountains, wide open [...]