Because the best travel stories don't end with ". . . and everything went according to plan"
May 22, 2026 Expanding on yesterday, since I emailed before dinner. Wandered around trying to find someone willing to exchange food for money. Discovered I wasn’t the only tourist on the island. There was another lady doing the same thing as me. We both ended up being fed by an elderly woman who was really …
May 21, 2026 So I woke up this morning and headed down to the beach in Copacabana to see about getting a boat to Isla del Sol. Only one guy down there, so I asked him. He said he’d be willing to bring me out for 1000 Bolivianos. I agreed without doing the exchange rate …
May 20, 2026 Weird damn day. Absolutely nothing has gone according to expectations. Woke up in Puno. My research on how to get to the Bolivian border had several locations where I could find a colectivo. I went to all of them. The internet was wrong. I did, during my 90 minutes of walking around, …