Machu Picchu has been on my bucket list since I learned about it in my 20s. We planned our trip through South America taking the ideal...

Some call the Cordillera Blanca the best kept secret in South America. This 200-kilometer strip of the Andes is a hiking Mecca, with...

The drive from Ecuador to our first destination in Peru was 15 hours from cloud forest to sand dunes. Upon reaching Peru, we had arrived...

I love the Overlander phrase, “It isn’t a slow car, it’s a fast house.” We normally spend our days on a house which floats, so why not...

Cuenca is nearly a perfect little city - small and quaint, historic and hip, walkable, livable, and filled with yummy food. Of all the...

This picture says it all - Dashiell snorkeling with sea turtles. There were too many to count. Isabela Island is the largest of The...

Our first stop in The Galapagos was the island of Santa Cruz. This is the birthplace of the Theory of Evolution. In 1835, Charles Darwin...

When I was 17-years-old, I spent a summer month in Ecuador. My favorite part of the trip was going down a river in the Amazon in a dugout...

Baños is nestled in a deep valley and surrounded by lush mountains and snow-capped volcanos. This is Ecuador's adventure capital -...

High in the Cotopaxi highlands, lies Quilotoa Lake - a massive lake in the middle of a volcano. It has a gorgeous emerald green color...

Cotopaxi - Ecuador's second highest volcano, with a height of 5,897 m (19,347 ft) - is the world's fifth highest active volcano. The...

Nestled in the cloud forest, lies the wet village of Mindo. This is a birdwatcher's paradise and people come from all over the world to...

Exploring one of Latin America's largest markets in the Highlands of Ecuador.

Quito, Ecuador - the second highest city in the world filled with colonial architecture.