South America
Tour Name | Days | Year | Remark |
25 | 1965 | Brazil: Rio, Sao Paulo, Iguasu, Sete Quedas (largest waterfall in world, now destroyed by dam); Paraguay: Asuncion; Uruguay: Montrevideo; Argentina: Buenos Aires, Bariloche; Chile: Puerto Varas, Puerto Montt, Santiago, Vina del Mar, Valparaiso; Peru: Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu. |
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19 | 1975 | East Coast Cruise in 1975: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Rio, Vitoria, Salvador, Caracas, as steward on a cruise ship |
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13 | 1980 | Guatemala in 1980: Guatemala City, Flores, Tikal, Panajashel, Lake Atitlan, Chichicastenango, Huehuetenango, and into Honduras for Copan.. |
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28 | 1991 | Resting Cloud not ready; Vertigo 6AM to Hood Island by 10:30; seals and marine iguanas; snorkel off Gardner Island; Punta Suarez: masked boobies, birds and iguanas, seals and albatrosses; board Resting Cloud for dinner and sleep. |
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64 | 1996 | There's a flock of stormy petrels grazing the wave-tops, and a few albatrosses fly overhead. Back to the ship about 9AM, out of the clothes and into a welcome breakfast: Canadian bacon, French toast, ham, tea, hot cereal, and juice. We're barely finished when the call is made for the next landing at 10AM |
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22 | 2000 | Miami 5 days, fly to Lima, then Iquitos to Jungle Lodge 1 day, then board Lyubov Orlova and start toward Belem. Visit Boros and Huitotos villages, Peruate and Lago Cahocuma. Stop in Leticia, Colombia, and fall on (sabotaged?) planks and get 8 stitches in lower lip for $40 in Hospital San Rafael de Leticia. Zodiac on Rio Urutubinha, Parana do Jacora, Lago Uara, Boca do Cuxui Muni, Boca do Justica, Rio Badajos, Lago Anori, and Manaus for a day. Furo do Moara, Lago Carauac, Boca do Boto, Bio Balajo, Alter do Chao, Breves Narrows, off ship in Belem. Fly via Recife to Miami, Charlotte, and Newark. |
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15 | 2002 | WED,NOV 6: Tour Lodge area: macaws, turtles, airstrip. Maturin gift shop. Fly Canaima-Caracas 12:05-1:36, lunch in sandwich shop. El Avila tour 5PM, through Altamira, Galipan, overlook, grocery store for Mora juice, dine at Galipanier Restaurant, to hotel at 10, tired. |
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16 | 2006 | Bolivia: La Paz, Sucre, Lake Titicaca, then to Iquitos in Peru to cuise up the Amazon to three sources of the Amazon and two National Parks. |
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16 | 2008 | All icebergs but one are shrinking. Weather was wonderful, sharing a cabin with a stranger was part of the adventure. |
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16 | 2008 | With this trip I've visited every country in the Western Hemisphere! WHO'S compulsive? |