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PANAMA | Fri, 21 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [858]
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 [842]
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 >
PANAMA | Tue, 18 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [749]
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 >
COSTA RICA | Wed, 5 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [749]
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 >
JAPAN | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [396]
WE HAD ALREADY SEEN THE “BESTEST.” Now we’ve seen the “mostest.” Torii , that is—those bright red gates that mark the gateway between the human and sacred worlds in the Shinto religion.
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SAUDI ARABIA | Tue, 22 Oct 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [318]
Jordan has Petra, Croatia has Dubrovnik, and Japan has Kyoto. In its fledging tourism industry, Saudi Arabia has Al-Ula (sometimes spelt AlUla, which is the spelling I prefer because that makes it a perfect palindrome), which is the gateway to Mada'in ... Read more >
FAROE ISLANDS | Sat, 1 Jun 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [315]
It looks like the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan. Whaling is practiced on a subsistence rather than on a commercial basis here in the Faroe Islands. It's mostly pilot whales and occasionally dolphins that are hunted. Pilot whales aren't listed ... Read more >
UKRAINE | Tue, 23 Jul 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [274]
This may sound like I'm insane, but I'm in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than two years but I've been here two days and you'd never believe that there was a war at all as I stroll around Lviv. Getting through the border was a ... Read more >
JAPAN | Tue, 23 Apr 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [252]
DECIDING TO RE-VISIT KYOTO WAS A NO-BRAINER. We have a few days to kill before we sail from Yokohama, Japan is one of our favorite countries and there are a few things we missed in Kyoto in 2014. KABIN Taka isn’t as convenient to public transportation ... Read more >
INDIA | Thu, 2 May 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [251]
It's super loud, the food tastes great, the sights are amazing, it smells (good or bad) all over, and you often have to watch what you touch. Welcome to India. An overload of all five senses is the best way to put it. Many travellers before me have told ... Read more >
FAROE ISLANDS | Sun, 2 Jun 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [213]
Last night I had a Faroese night, with this morning having woke up with a hangover after a few at the pub and then some at home. It was bucketing down rain this morning so it was a great opportunity for a lie-in. Chivalrous to the last as always, I wouldn't ... Read more >
USA | Sun, 2 Jun 2024 | By rtumicki | Views [209]
332: Time flies when I neglect my journal entries. Now I am down to 332 days and I have a sneaking feeling this time will go by quicker than I think or would like. I have started many to-do lists in various notebooks I keep. One, the ... Read more >
USA | Sat, 22 Jun 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [204]
YOU DON’T HAVE TO TRAVEL TO HOLLYWOOD to see the World Premier of a film—you don’t even need to dress up! Yesterday we attended the World Premier of T.REX in 3-D right here at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and not even ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Wed, 17 Apr 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [192]
IT WAS RAINING MONDAY WHEN WE LEFT DAEGU. Through the rain-streaked windows of our “bullet” train forested hillsides alternated with towering apartment blocks as we chugged through unknown cities on our way to Seoul. It was still raining ... Read more >
NORWAY | Sat, 22 Jun 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [188]
Blue sky awaited me this morning after a bad dream about a friend. After so many days of rain and dark clouds, the sun was shining and it was warm out. Monica made Norwegian waffles this morning. Unlike their Belgian counterparts, they have a soft texture ... Read more >
CHILE | Fri, 6 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [188]
EVEN FOUR DECKS UP, SPRAY FROM the bow streamed down our balcony windows. Oosterdam had been fighting gale-force winds and three-meter waves since we sailed back into the Pacific. Everyone was weaving like winos on a Friday night and the west wind ... Read more >
INDIA | Thu, 9 May 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [185]
"A teardrop on the cheek of eternity" -Radindranath Tagore
It's the ultimate monument to love. One of the most, if not the most, magnificent buildings in the world. The Taj Mahal finally called my name today after two days of frustration with trains ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 29 Apr 2024 | By shaz | Views [179]
I had company on this cycling trip. This girl has never cycled long distance in her life. She has never tried an activity holiday where we were cycling everyday even in the rain. I had back up plans just in case she said no fucking way but none were ... Read more >
USA | Sun, 15 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [179]
WE AGREED TO MEET AT SUNNYSIDE on the Hudson River near Tarrytown NY. Jenny, Matt and son Ryan came down from Connecticut, Debra from nearby White Plains and we came across from North Jersey. Debra and Jenny are “John One’s” nieces ... Read more >
PERU | Wed, 22 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [178]
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 | Wed, 12 Jun 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [173]
WE HAVE BEEN BACK IN COLORADO FOR exactly a month—and, boy, have we been busy. We got much needed haircuts and retrieved some essentials from storage even before we checked in to our latest AirBnB, our fifth “same-but-different”... Read more >
USA | Sat, 11 May 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [172]
AFTER SIXTEEN DAYS AT SEA, THE GOOD SHIP Royal Princess arrived in Whittier, AK yesterday—East to Alaska, not North. As cruises go this one was pretty blah. It began with a last minute change of berths negating the carefully chosen location of ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Thu, 18 Apr 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [170]
SINCE A VISA FOR NORTH KOREA IS OUT of the question, I would have to settle for a peek into North Korea across the the D e m ilitarized Z one. Connie, who had already visited to the DMZ as part of a 1998 official military mission, came along for the ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Sat, 20 Apr 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [163]
A RAINY SATURDAY SEEMED LIKE THE PERFECT time to visit an art museum and the Leeum Samsung seemed like the perfect museum. Finding it required some new metro navigation and a bit of luck at the end of the line but everything worked out fine. The museum ... Read more >
USA | Sat, 6 Jul 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [163]
IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 15 YEARS since we visited Colorado ski country—each year we promise to make the trip but keep putting it off. But Houstonian friends Greg and Laura were in town on grandparent duty and a day in the mountains seemed like a good ... Read more >