europetravel97 views8 minute read Afraid of heights? Ronda Spain will give you lots to talk about with your therapist.Peter Crosby05/14/2015 Do you get nervous on elevators and balconies? Then you’re not going to love Ronda Spain. View Post
europetravel57 views12 minute read Of Spain’s many exceptional towns and cities, Madrid is the most tragically ordinary.Peter Crosby05/10/2015 In any other country, Madrid would be a must-see city. But in Spain, it’s just a meh one. View Post
south americatravel35 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
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 americatravel50 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 americatravel53 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
africatravel52 views20 minute read Egypt Africa: The world’s most ancient civilization (and it has the dust to prove it).Peter Crosby12/23/2010 Some of the earliest developments in writing, agriculture, and government happened here first. Why? Aliens, duh. View Post
north americatravel37 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 americatravel154 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
caribbeannorth americatravel60 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
asiatravel54 views16 minute read Beijing China: San Francisco’s Chinatown doesn’t hold a candle to it.Peter Crosby04/22/2005 I had no idea how many Chinese you could fit in one city. (Hint: a lot.) View Post