asiatravel42 views12 minute read Jerusalem may be popular with Christians, but Jesus probably hated the godforsaken place.Peter Crosby11/09/2022 People have been returning to Jerusalem for almost 2,000 years, but why would Jesus ever go back? View Post
australiaoceaniatravel60 views11 minute read Melbourne is the most livable city in Australia’s otherwise sweltering hellscape.Peter Crosby11/22/2016 Compared to Australia’s other major cities, Melbourne is a breath of fresh, and freezing Arctic air. View Post
south americatravel43 views13 minute read Belize: It’s like a giant saltwater aquarium that isn’t all full of fish poop.Peter Crosby01/02/2016 People don’t come to Belize for white sandy beaches. They come for what most islands don’t have: an epic, ocean-taming barrier reef. View Post
europetravel101 views9 minute read Seville Spain was built on stolen gold and, from the looks of the place, a shipload of it.Peter Crosby05/15/2015 Seville Spain was built on stolen South American gold, and judging from the look of the place, assloads of the stuff. View Post
south americatravel34 views10 minute read The Galápagos Islands: We take a vacation from Natural Selection.Peter Crosby06/12/2012 Want to see how much better the world would be if humans never existed? This is the closest you’ll get. View Post
europenorth americasitesouth americatravel47 views7 minute read Quito Ecuador: The world’s second-highest capital city (and not because they legalized drugs).Peter Crosby06/11/2012 Though merely the second capital of the Inca Empire, Quito was, and still is, first in “cities surrounded on all sides by active volcanoes.” View Post
south americatravel78 views10 minute read Machu Picchu Peru: We find the “Lost City of The Incas” right where they left it.Peter Crosby06/09/2012 Occupied for only a century, this site was a spectacular human achievement and waste of time. View Post
south americatravel74 views4 minute read Urubamba Valley, Peru: aka “Yucay Valley,” aka “Sacred Valley,” aka “Holy Crap! Valley.”Peter Crosby06/07/2012 We had to get there from Cusco by traversing Urubamba Valley, the Sacred Valley of the Incas. View Post
south americatravel47 views6 minute read Cusco Peru: Not everyone who lives in the Andes Mountains crashed their airplane.Peter Crosby06/05/2012 Incas thought the Andes was a great place to build a capital city. Of course, they were hopped up on coca leaves most of the time. View Post
south americatravel52 views4 minute read Hot and dry like LA, Lima Peru even has its clean, breathable air.Peter Crosby06/04/2012 Lima is an amazing, chaotic city with a rich and tragic heritage that I’d highly recommend visiting. View Post
south americatravel33 views1 minute read South America: We visited our fellow Americans below the equator.Peter Crosby06/03/2012 South America is full of amazing places like Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Galápagos, and other places we didn’t visit. View Post
caribbeannorth americatravel59 views11 minute read San Juan, Puerto Rico: Where so many speak Spanish, you think you’re in California.Peter Crosby05/11/2007 We spent a week in the not-so-exotic — but still technically foreign — Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. View Post