Tag: macho picchu

A Lesson in Colonialism at Cusco Cathedral

January 16, 2017

So many travelers make haste for Machu Picchu in Peru, they might overlook important sites in Cusco.

Of Gold, Guinea Pigs, Last Suppers, and a Somewhat Swarthy Jesus So many visitors are in Cusco, Peru either on their way to or from the nearby main attraction, Machu Picchu. My own stay in Cusco is little more than…

Peruvian Effigy

March 15, 2015

Figures suspended from a tree in Cusco, Peru Photo credit: M. Ciavardini

A little disconcerting to this North American visitor are the colorful effigies hanging from trees and lampposts in southern Peru. The Brawny Sherpa and I are in Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu at the end of February, when…

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A telemarketer changed my path. My life was humming along. I was a freelance writer and editor, a single mom, a frequent volunteer, and content. Then I decided to give a random telephone surveyor a break. I agreed to answer a few questions on travel destinations and tourist preferences. When I answered never to “how many times have you been to London?,” the telemarketer’s tone shifted quickly. She was talking to an unworldly woman.

She was right. I’d been to Italy, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, and plenty of states. I hadn’t trekked through Europe, though, or gone to Asia or visited the Middle East. I was alone, I was a single mom, I was a freelancer. I stopped letting these be excuses and started getting on planes. I became the Bashful Adventurer.

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Bashful Adventurer Book Club

Looking for Books Set in Key West? Try Island Life Sentence by Carrie Jo Howe

January 15, 2024

Looking for a book set in Key West, the Bashful Adventurer stumbles upon Island Life Sentence by Carrie Jo Howe. But will the book be as a good as a getaway to the Florida Keys?

A Book about Adventures in Travel at an Uncertain Time

November 4, 2020

The Bashful Adventurer picks up a romance novel written in the late 1930s hoping to see if and how the author addressed the coming war—and ends up getting a lesson on careers in the travel and tourism industry at a time when adventures in travel were far from mainstream

Books about Newport, RI: Murder at the Breakers

October 5, 2020

Disinclined to venture too far from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bashful Adventurer picks up a copy of Murder at the Breakers. But will this Gilded Newport Mystery make her want to visit Newport, RI?

Channeling Peggy Guggenheim and Costalegre, Jalisco, Mexico

September 28, 2020

The Bashful Adventurer, engaged in some rugged armchair travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, picks up a copy of Courtney Maum’s novel, Costalegre. Will the Bashful Adventurer be transported?

A Book about the Adirondacks: Murder in the Adirondacks by Craig Brandon

July 2, 2020

Indulging in some armchair travel of the NY Adirondacks, the Bashful Adventurer picks up a book about the Adirondacks. But will she like what she finds in Murder in the Adirondacks?

A Book Set in Sanibel, FL: Seduced by Randy Wayne White

May 8, 2020

Happy to start a Bashful Adventurer Book Club while traveling in place during the coronavirus pandemic, the Bashful Adventurer turns to a Randy Wayne White thriller set in Sanibel, FL for a bit of healthful escapism during a very fraught time. Join her!

Finding Gavrilo Princip at Terezin

May 9, 2019

Learning about World War II at Terezin concentration camp in Czech Republic, the Bashful Adventurer is surpised to discover that Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who killed Franz Ferdinand, did time there.

Visiting the Mendocino Coast

August 12, 2018

Getting Some Ideas from an Old 1972 Visitor Guide Visiting the Mendocino Coast for the first time, I quickly am reminded how little history of the Western United States I remember from any educational instruction on the topic. The details…

Key West’s Appearance in Jim Harrison’s Warlock

July 23, 2018

Read books set in vacation destinations like Key West

What to Read on a Puerto Rico Vacation

July 10, 2018

Understanding Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria If your whole neighborhood were to somehow blow down, say via hurricane, who would get to decide how, and if, to rebuild? You probably would like to think that you would, of course,…

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