"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
Regular followers of our photo blog may have noticed that our country counter was recently updated to 130 UN countries visited. On our recent trip “Uruguay and the Amazon“, we visited Paraguay, a country to which we’d never been before.
Hoc est quod ait Heraclitus: ‘in idem flumen bis descendimus et non descendimus’. This is what Heraclitus says: “We go down and do not go down into the same river twice.” Well, Rio de Janeiro was certainly not the “same
Piranha fishing on the Amazon! But wait…. we’re jumping ahead too quickly. Our Amazon cruise on Iberostar’s Amazon Grand Expedition was divided into two segments: a 4-night cruise on the Rio Negro, and then a 3-night journey up the Solimoes
From our weekend at Iguazu Falls, we flew to Manaus,capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state. Brazil is a huge country so it took us two flights and all day to cover the ~2,600 km. Incredibly uncomfortable flights too, since LATAM Airlines’
Iguazu Falls is situated just upstream of the Triple Frontier tripoint where Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay meet. Only Brazil and Argentina have national parks with access to the falls and we visited them both. Our post is titled “Return to
When we left Montevideo for the short flight to Asunción, Paraguay, we were initially annoyed because Paranair changed us from a morning flight to a mid-afternoon departure, leaving us very little time to see Paraguay’s capital. As it turned out,
On our final day at Estancia El Ceibo, we did relatively little (well, nothing really!) except enjoy a big farm breakfast and then another meal at lunchtime. Then, it was time to get a ride into the dusty town of
As more fully described in our post about Montevideo, the main event of Carnaval in the city each year is two parades, the Desfile de Llamadas. Our YouTube videos shot at the Desfile de Llamadas on Feb. 7, 2026: For
Our trip to Uruguay and the Amazon began with a relaxing, 3-day stay at an estancia (ranch) just a couple of hours outside Uruguay’s capital of Montevideo. Instead of “relaxing” we might have said “recovery” since the journey to South
As always, the first couple of weeks of January have featured a flood of emails and social media posts hyping “travel trends for 2026”. The predicted trends include: However the emerging trend that most spoke to us is one featured
When we visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil next year, we hope to reach the remote village of Loof Lirpa to visit the Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons. The Amazonian subspecies of the common homing pigeon, Columba livia amazonum, nests
When we created our trip page, Uruguay and the Amazon, we were planning to cruise the Amazon from its mouth up to Manaus, Brazil and back on a large cruise ship. We have had to pivot, and have cancelled that
The feature image above is from the CBC article “‘Elbows up’ rallying cry evokes memories of Mr. Hockey” which provides the origin story for the Elbows Up catchphrase. As mentioned on our Amazon Trip Page, we’ve cancelled our plans to