My Experience: Biking Through Wine Country In Mendoza Argentina

“It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), in the movie “Time Must Have a Stop” (1944)

Wine tasting in Mendoza was quite the experience. I arrived in Mendoza after a few life changing months in Santiago Chile. It was my first time setting foot in Argentina and to me the perfect place to begin ones journey through this amazing country. Especially in March during the last month of summer. It really doesn’t get better.

After a few nights of dancing Tango, I heard amongst other things, that one of the things I had to experience was a self guided bike tour through the Mendoza wine country. And being an avid drinker of wine, this quickly became top of my list. So I scheduled with my hostel to be picked up the next day. Read more

My Experience In The Santiago Earthquake: Crazy Parties, Bad Drivers and The Coming End Of The World

“Every disaster screams for humor” -

-Silvia Millecam Dutch actor and comedian

My Experience In The Santiago Earthquake

It was approximately 3:30 in the morning on Saturday and I was with some friends at a popular night club in Santiago.

I was enjoying my time like most nights, but looking back there was definitely a strange energy that felt very different than most other nights. Read more

My Dreams Of Freedom Have Come True Thanks To The Internet

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you’ll discover will be wonderful.
What you’ll discover is yourself.

~ Alan Alda ~ American actor, director and screenwriter

Recently, I spent a few weeks in a town called Arequipa located near the border of Chile and Peru. It’s a very mystical city and without question, captured my heart forever.

Regardless of the sporadic and slow Internet connections and impossible phone systems, it became hard to leave the remote city of nearly one million people, all of which seem to live in a time that more or less no longer exists. Read more

My Experience In Peru: Random Footage of Exotic Markets, Bizarre Foods and Strange Parades

Random Footage

Most of the posts I make on this site will tend to have a story line to them…for example a journey to some place or maybe documenting some sort of process or experience I’ve had.

But there is also many times that I capture footage that doesn’t seem to fit into any story line other than the fact that it’s just part of my every day experience. More or less random events that I think are cool enough to pull out my camera and start recording. (At least I think they’ll cool, but then again I’m very easily amused)

And to be honest, I feel like if I didn’t publish them for you to see I would be depriving you of some really good stuff.

Some Random Thoughts As I Made This Video

The more I travel the more I find that there is as many commonalities as there is differences in the way people and things operate around the world.  Without question, I think you’ll see, especially if you have never traveled outside of the States, that the way most people live in the world is indeed very different than the way we have come to experience life in the US.  A good lesson for the many people that tend to think they have it all figured out. Read more

My Experience: Visiting Ancient Man Made Floating Islands On Lake Titicaca In Peru..

After an 8 hour bus ride on my way into Arequipa, I decided to stop in the town of Puno. Puno is basically on the border of Bolivia and Peru. In fact, the town of Puno is most often used as the entrance point for many people trekking into Bolivia. It also sits on Lake Titicaca (pronounced “tee tee ka ka”) which is the world’s highest navigable lake at 12,500 feet (3,810 m) above sea level and is the second largest lake of South America (after Maracaibo). Read more

My Experience Eating Live Guinea Pig in Peru…(Warning!! You Tube Has Banned This Video In Several Countries)

When I first arrived in Peru I heard that Guinea Pig was a popular delicacy.. I was fascinated by this, because I had always seen Guinea pigs as pets and not something you eat for dinner. I knew right then that I had to try it and make a video out of the experience. Read more

Traveling Into The Andes of Peru From Lima

I left Lima today on my way into Cusco with the intention to hike Machu Picchu. The bus ride was a grueling 21 hours through the Andes on a one lane road most of the way.  There were some sketchy moments when I felt the bus was literally going to tip over the side of the mountain and we would all roll to our deaths. From what I hear, this actually happens on occasion.

Fortunately, I didn’t experience the cartwheel journey down the cliffs and I indeed arrived safely into Cusco. After a few stops along the way we had finally arrived in Cusco. I was starving and tired, my hands and clothes covered in sticky juice from the Mango I tried to eat at 2am without a knife or a plate and probably smelling like anything but mangos. I just wanted to get some food and go to sleep. Check out the video above to see more.

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How I Switched From a PC to a MAC…

I have been thinking of switching to a Mac for a long time. I have owned at least 10 PCs in my life, and sadly nearly all of them have succumbed to viruses and spy-ware.

This year I  had bought a new Compaq because my Gateway crashed. And not even four months after buying it, my Compaq was running so slow from some virus it had that I finally made the decision to make the switch once and for all.

Initially the biggest thing that was holding me back was learning the new OS (operating system) because at the time I had so many other things going on and the last thing I needed was to take on another learning curve.

What I found however, is that the Mac is much better organized and easier to use than the PCs I owned. If you commit to spend a half a day going through the basic tutorials,  you will probably have a better idea of how to operate you new Mac than you ever did on your PC. That was my experience anyways.

The best thing about having a Mac is that it has made everything I am doing with my travel blog tens times easier. All the media programs like Imovie, Itunes, Iphoto etc… make publishing and keeping track of media files so ridiculously easy. Needless to say, I will never be going back. Check out the video to see how I finalized the transition. I know it’s cheesy. but hey, it gets me traffic!

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