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PANAMA | Fri, 21 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [3038]
OF PANAMA’S ROUGHLY ONE THOUSAND BIRDS, seven are found only in Panama. With our previous birding birding trips in nearby Columbia we had already seen all but 90 of the species. No, problem, though. This trip was not jus about birds—it was ... Read more >
PANAMA | Mon, 17 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [2952]
SUNDAY WAS AN EASY DAY, as if Oscar wanted to test our mettle. Breakfast at 6:15 followed by three hours of birding on Sendero el Balsal. This isn’t primary rain forest—much of it is a teak plantation—so we all piled into the back of ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Wed, 5 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [2905]
OUR SPIRITS NEEDED A JOLT OF COSTA RICAN Pura Vita before returning to the sturm und drang of the USA and a condo in the beach town of Jaco was just the ticket. This is our fourth visit to Costa Rica, we’ve already covered most of the country ... Read more >
PANAMA | Tue, 18 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [2887]
ANOTHER EARLY START TODAY, first a van to Yaviza and followed by another panga ride on the Chucunaque River to El Real and onward by truck to the Embera village of Pijibasal where our Crested Eagle trek would begin.
Our Guide ... Read more >
PERU | Wed, 22 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [430]
WITH APOLOGIES TO RED SKELTON, we flew in to Lima yesterday and, boy, are our arms tired! The flight was only three hours long but after getting up 2:30 in the morning for the only direct flight from Salta, it’s not just our arms but our entire ... Read more >
USA | Fri, 11 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [307]
NO TRIP TO THE HOUSTON AREA would be complete without a visit to Sabine Woods Audubon Sanctuary—at least for birders like us. Yes, we know we’re here too soon for the Spring migration but we’re hoping to see a few of those famous Early ... Read more >
PANAMA | Sat, 15 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [299]
BIRDING IN DARIÉN HAS BEEN ON OUR RADAR for years. Until recently the logistics and cost were daunting, the rivers were frequented by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants and decent lodging was non-existent.
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NEW ZEALAND | Thu, 13 Mar 2025 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [289]
It seems like only months ago we ended our Mediterranean cruise but it has been well over a year!
At the end of 2023 I joined with other Ulysses members to ride the length of New Zealand raising funds to help those who continue to suffer from the ... Read more >
USA | Mon, 10 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [256]
IT’S BEEN TWO AND A HALF YEARS since Hurricane Ian crashed through Fort Myers and just a single lane on the only bridge connecting Pine Island to the mainland is open. On-going construction regularly stops traffic dead. Businesses along Pine Island ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Sat, 8 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [241]
THERE ARE TWO WAYS THAT ANIMALS originally arrived in the Galapagos—a sea voyage or via the friendly skies. Blown offshore by winds, birds—just like seeds—eventually reached the islands. Animals that are strong swimmers like sea ... Read more >
PERU | Fri, 24 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [240]
THE ROAD FROM HUACHO TO HUARAZ took five hours, had hundreds of hairpin turns and climbed 13,000 feet into the Andean Cordillera Blanca before descending to the sprawl that is Huaraz. Our suite at Villa Valencia was another gem, the equal of many of ... Read more >
PERU | Mon, 27 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [237]
BASED UPON THE CARVINGS AT EL BRUJO, the Moche weren’t the friendliest people—pretty much what you would expect from people ruled by Warrior-Priests who worshipped a god known as Decapitator at a site called El Brujo (sorcerer) by the Spanish ... Read more >
USA | Sun, 6 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [236]
AFTER TWO WEEKS OF SLOTH ON FLORIDA’S Turquoise Coast we’re back on our Grand Tour. This leg took us through Alabama and Mississippi to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. After our 8-hour journey from Pine Island to Destin, the two-hour ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Mon, 10 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [220]
DARWIN’S FINCHES ARE THE BEST-KNOWN of the one hundred or so resident bird species in the Galapagos. They may have inspired his theory of evolution but the seventeen species are actually in the tanager family—they are not even closely related ... Read more >
PERU | Thu, 30 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [208]
WE DECIDED TO BYPASS CERRO SECHIN and Chankillo on our way north and save them for our return to Lima. Photos of Cerro Sechin depicted intricate carvings on real rock, not mudstone, and we figured we would see much more at the site. Not.
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ECUADOR | Fri, 7 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [204]
THE JURY IS STILL OUT as to whether “ galapágo ” is an old Spanish word for “saddle” or for “tortoise” which the saddles resembled. Either way, the Galapagos would be nothing without the giant tortoises that ... Read more >
PERU | Sun, 26 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [197]
AFTER THREE CONSECUTIVE DAYS of 5+ hour driving we deserved a little R&R and Wyndham’s Costa del Sol in Trujillo was just the ticket with a quiet location, nice rooms, secure parking, a wonderful restaurant—even a wandering pair of llamas.... Read more >
USA | Fri, 16 May 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [194]
IT SHOULDN’T HAVE COME AS A SHOCK—there have been only two or three of us posting in the past year—but World Nomads seems to have stopped supporting photos on this site. And what’s a travel blog without pictures?
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MARSHALL ISLANDS | Sun, 9 Feb 2025 | By shaz | Views [182]
My flight was the island hopper so I have 2 stops, Kosrae where I'm allowed to get off and Kwajalein where I'm not allowed to do anything even move as it's a military base airport. Hah when has that stopped me especially the photos of the amazing sunset ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Thu, 6 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [180]
DURING A “WHILE WE’RE HERE” MOMENT we booked a trip to the Galapagos. We had visited the archipelago fifteen years ago, five days exploring the older eastern and southern islands. This time we’re on an 8-day trip on a luxury yacht ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 14 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [180]
Helsinki II - Heavenfloati
Day 1 = Sun 12 Jan
Train
Possible snowplough at 3:30am
Woken up in Tampere
Packed up and off at Helsinki
2 Cabs to accom
Accom
2 level penthouse in Docklands-ish part of town
Emma succeeds ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Fri, 17 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [176]
CARLOS WENT OUT OF HIS WAY to show us some of his Jujuy (hoo-hoo-ay) Province. Yesterday we drove 300 kilometers from Chicoana to Salinas Grandes, stopping only for lunch in Purmamarca at the spectacular Hotel El Manantial del Silencio, undeniably the ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sun, 19 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [169]
WHENEVER CONNIE ASKED CARLOS when we could hope to see a particular bird on her hit list, he replied, “Abra Pampa.” Well, here we are—or as near as possible with decent lodging, restaurants and at a “reasonable” altitude ... Read more >
PANAMA | Thu, 13 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [166]
WITH A LAUNDRY BAG FULL OF DIRTY CLOTHES and a few days to kill before we headed to the Darién rain forest, we booked an AirBnB just outside Casco Antiguo, Panama City’s Old Quarter.
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AUSTRALIA | Sat, 8 Feb 2025 | By besoka | Views [162]
After struggling with this old platform out of nostalgia and symmetry, I've decided that it's just too old, broken and frustrating. It appears to be running an old version of Cloudflare that causes it to fail for increasingly random reasons - eg ... Read more >