My 10 Favorite Photos

I took a lot of photos during all my adventuring. Maybe not so many as I could have, but still a lot in 10 months of doing stuff. And most of them are pretty awesome.

There were some though, that for whatever reason I just liked way more. So for your viewing pleasure, I have put together my top 10 favorite photos from my entire journey in chronological order.

Of course Machu Picchu is amazing, but I especially liked this one that was taken with my phone, and got a little lens flare going. Maybe it's cheesy, but I liked it.

Machu Picchu, Peru

In the middle of Quito, this sculpture is made out of a bunch of rebar welded together. I took this walking through one night just before sunset, and love the sky colors behind the globe.

Quito, Ecuador

Watching sunset from the top of the bluff in Sua, we snapped this. Just a bunch of friends having fun.

Sua, Ecuador

Speaking of friends, I love how this selfie with Taryn turned out. We both look great, and Bogota through the mist in the background is awesome.

Bogota, Colombia

Climbing up to the cross with hostel folk, this is the worst YMCA attempt in history, and it makes me giggle every time.

Cali, Colombia

I was originally taking a picture of the metalwork in the window for a friend, and afterwards noticed the reflection. I love the palm tree, and how all the colors just go well together, and with the yellow of the frame.

Guatape, Colombia

So many pretty churches, but especially this one all lit up at night in Cartagena. How the colors came out get me.

Cartagena, Colombia

This is what a fish attacking you looks like. Plus sergeant majors are such an awesome yellow.

Bocas del Toro, Panama

Not only did I get to see quetzels in the cloud forest, I managed to get an awesome photo through binoculars of one. I think the roundness makes an interesting photo as well.

Monteverde, Costa Rica

All the macaws at the bird reserve were beautiful, but I especially love this shot looking backwards all puffed up.

Copan, Honduras

Honorable mentions:

I already had one Machu Picchu photo, but I really love the llamas all lined up looking out at the ruins.

Machu Picchu, Peru

It never occurred to me that pelicans could (and would) sit in trees until I watched it happen. I thought this guy was so picturesque on the end of his palm out over the beach.

San Blas Islands, Panama

Since Bolivia happened after the initial choosing, it's only fair that it gets representation. I made myself choose only one... when jumping photos work perfectly.

Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

Animal Selfies

Selfie.

The word didn't exist a decade ago, and now I bet its in the dictionary.

Something about taking the picture yourself just makes it a different kind of photo. There's a time to hand your camera to a passerby to snap a frame, and there's a time to have a too close, badly framed, crazy selfie that captures the moment.

Here's all the moments I captured with non-humans.

Starting off with one of the Machu Picchu llamas.

Giant prehistoric fossil ground sloth

Little tiny flamingos

My favorite statue. I think it's supposed to be an eagle with a snake, but I thought it looked more penguin-ish

There's a lionfish in this photo, I promise. I just didn't want to get my head too close to it, with it's poison spines and all.

Christmastime reindeer

This was the burning effigy at New Years. Since he at one point had a face, I figure it counts.

Rescue pup at Kingbird

Pina the macaw

One of the many lizards around Chichen Itza

This was my favorite floaty toy ever, a big blue hippo

Crazy shrimp statue in Costa Rica

Coati friend

Speaks for itself.

This was after he stole my glasses off my face

What are you looking at...

First animal selfie in Peru, with one of the pacaranas

Failed train selfie going in

Better train selfie walking out

Baby llama!

Adult llama

Surprise llama!

Morante, Fernando's horse

I also discovered a bunch of things that I rode. Not enough for a whole post, but here you go.

Day 1 in Lima

What else to do in a kids park? I went early morning before catching my bus specially to take this photo. I had to wait my turn because a small child was using it...

Way back in a dead-end

At the Cali Zoo

Also the Cali zoo. Photobombing crazy lizard sign in the background gets extra points.

Lake Titicaca

May 5, 2016

Our last day in Bolivia we woke up early, packed our bags, had the delicious hotel breakfast buffet, and after leaving our bags at the front desk hopped a bus to Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca.

It was a 4 hour ride from La Paz including a brief interlude where we got off the bus and took a ferry across the strait while the bus was taken across on a barge.

Bus barge

Passenger ferry

Upon arrival to town we 1. Found a bathroom and 2. Found lunch (in that order) then headed for the water. The initial view was amazing.

We were quickly able to find a boat hollering for a trip to las islas flotantes, the floating islands. A half hour boat ride across the lake and we were there.

The 'islands' made me smile. They were clearly paying tribute to when the indiginous people lived on floating rafts of reeds tied together, but these were wooden docks covered with reeds on top.

Fish pens

The view was nice though, and if you desired you could choose a trout out of the pens for a fresh cooked meal. There was a big rock out in the water to walk to for great photo ops.

There was a music group filming a music video while we were there, and I wish I had gotten their name to YouTube later, I bet it looked pretty cool.

Once back on shore we made a quick visit to the spectacular baroque cathedral before hopping a bus home.

Ceiling inside the cathedral

We had the same ferry drill coming home, and got a nice sunset too.

After that it was a late dinner in town, a taxi ride to the airport after grabbing our packs from the hotel, and 22 hours of travel home, safe in the knowledge that we had an excellent last day.

We had a 7 hour layover in Bogota on the way home, and since I was familiar with the city, we headed out of the airport and around town for a little while. Way better than 7 hours of small airport.

We walked around the main downtown plaza

Got hot chocolate and cheesecake at 10am

And headed for LA in a dreamliner. It was huge!