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 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
north americatravel90 views6 minute read Yosemite California: Nature at its most naturiest.Peter Crosby10/08/2011 Famed nature photographer Ansel Adams first gazed upon Yosemite and said, “I’m gonna need a bigger format camera.” View Post
north americatravel36 views4 minute read Redding California: It’s close to a lot of other, better places to visit.Peter Crosby09/03/2010 A famous architect designed a bridge in Reading and that was enough reason to go there. View Post
north americatravel152 views11 minute read Hawaii, The Big Island: Probably not the Hawaii you’re thinking of.Peter Crosby07/07/2010 Our flight took off for the Big Island of Hawaii, but it touched down in the Proterozoic Era. View Post
north americatravel83 views7 minute read San Antonio, Texas: A “river walks” through it. (Get it?)Peter Crosby02/18/2010 It’s the name of a famous movie, and there’s a riverwalk here, and…oh, never mind. View Post
north americatravel41 views11 minute read Cancun Mexico: It’s not all beer chugging and wet t-shirt contests (dammit).Peter Crosby11/18/2008 Cancun has fascinating archeological sites and a rich history that you can explore in between Margaritas. View Post
north americatravel19 views4 minute read New Orleans, Louisiana: Hey, who got their Europe in our America?Peter Crosby08/31/2007 Lacking only washing machine-sized cars and a staunch refusal to shower, New Orleans could almost pass for Rome or Paris. 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
north americatravel36 views6 minute read New York City, NY: You can’t do it all in one weekend, but we try anyway.Peter Crosby06/18/2005 We won a trip to NYC, so we took it. View Post
north americatravel52 views4 minute read Cabo San Lucas: A spectacular paradise we’ll probably never go back to.Peter Crosby10/09/2002 Cabo exists solely to offer foreigners fishing, golf, liver-damage and skin cancer. View Post
north americatravel18 views7 minute read Calistoga California: How we spent our 6th anniversary, and I do mean “spent.”Peter Crosby09/03/2001 We spend our 6th anniversary at a BnB. View Post