Elevation: 6215 feet
We arrived in the small hamlet of San Francisco de Sales in our second week on the road as the hot noon sun beat down on the roof of the old Blue Bird. Our old bus crawled into town, belching large clouds of black smoke at young children with bored and sullen faces […]

At 5:30 in the morning we arrive in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, on the night train from Sapa, a hill-station in the north of Vietnam. We step bleary-eyed out into the gray drizzle and into the swarm of taxi drivers. We find one who will use the meter, and have him take us to […]

You never know how a place will make you feel until you get there. Sitting in the plane, staring out the window at the dense Guatemalan landscape below I writhed with a growing sensation of excitement and nausea. The rugged mountainous green and brown jungles stretching out to the horizon almost reminded me of my […]