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Vilcabamba Makes it's Case

Vilcabamba Makes it’s Case

Welcome to the Rodeo.  It’s been over a year since I’ve visited this travel experience on this blog.  This past year was the most profound year of my life; it was the most transformative, the most painful, the most hopeful,  the most frustrating, the most difficult, the most challenging, the most faithful, the most fostering, the most beautiful, the scariest, the and the most rewarding all…

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Last Year at the Folk Festival

Last Year at the Folk Festival

Every year around the beginning of summer the Folk Fest stirs up something from deep within, a feeling that gets amplified with each passing week.  I can tap into the feeling of the energy in the moments I experienced in the years before.  It feels as if I bottled up all of the overflow of the festival as it was happening, and buried it within myself in a biodegradable container that had a shelf…

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Cuenca, Guayaquil, and a Little Bit of Montañita

Cuenca, Guayaquil, and a Little Bit of Montañita

There’s a feeling that I can’t seem to shake whenever there’s an unknown just over the horizon line.  My mind yearns see and to know what furtive features lay claim to the earth just beyond eyesight around the next headland.  I can’t live another moment until I know life in the small colonial village on the tucked way up in the mountainside. I need to be tired and thirsty in the next rough and…

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Fishing in a Fishing Village: Puerto Lopez, Ecuador

Fishing in a Fishing Village: Puerto Lopez, Ecuador

  Forward: It took quite some time for this post to come together.  I blame that mostly on my currently off kilter work/life balance. When I started writing this, Puerto Lopez was a sweet, faint memory made of seafood, salty beach air, and deliciously slow sunsets.  The humble, rough & tumble fishing village was as an easy blend of small town charm and low season volume in the few days we hung…

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Don't go to Salinas de Guaranda. You might not leave.

Don’t go to Salinas de Guaranda. You might not leave.

Bus rides between destinations in the Andes carry an almost certain guarantee to have some of the most dramatic landscapes you’ll ever see.  After leaving Riobamba we enjoyed another long encounter with Chimborazo, specifically the southern face of the dormant volcano. I could easily get swept up into a myriad of intricate details about how stunning the ride was, but I think I delved into my…

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Stopover in Riobamba to Ride a Phantom Train

Stopover in Riobamba to Ride a Phantom Train

  Author’s note: It’s been a solid 6 1/2 months since my last update on this story. I can’t come up with anything other than procrastination & prioritization as being the 2 key elements keeping me from putting the pen to the paper and stepping back into the ethereal experience that I so longingly crave to dwell within.  Life in a city can and will often come at you just a hair under the actual…

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Without further ado, I give you El Cocuy National Park.  Click on the link below or the picture for a better description of this week's photo challenge of "unique". 

-Dr.

http://theadventuresofadr.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

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Tayrona Park is a national protected park in Colombia along the Caribbean coast.  It is absolutely stunning.  Palm trees, snow capped peaks, stunning coastal headlands, and surfing are just some of the beach elements it has to offer.  Click on the picture above or the link below for more photographs and words.  Then go travel. -Dr.

http://theadventuresofadr.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/costeno-beach-not-your-typical-trip-to-tayrona-park/

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Take a moment from your frigidly cold day (east coasters) and check out the warm, Caribbean waters of Santa Marta, Colombia.  From yours truly.

-Dr.

http://theadventuresofadr.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/santa-marta-colombia-sweating-in-south-americas-oldest-living-city/

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Newport, RI aka home (for now) -Dr.

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New blog post is up. Check out the weekly photo challenge of "Beyond" with my version of what beyond looks like.  Click on the link or picture.  Spread the gospel.

-Dr.

http://theadventuresofadr.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/weekly-photo-challenge-beyond/

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The Dr. is at it again.  Rincon del Mar, Colombia is a quiet, sleepy town in the off season that is very rewarding to those that take the effort and multiple steps necessary to find it.  For many more of my pictures and descriptions of travel adventure click on the picture or the link below!

http://theadventuresofadr.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/slow-season-stay-in-rincon-del-mar-colombia/

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A scene from the streets of La Habana.  Click on the photo for a description of this scene.

-Dr.

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Cartagena, Colombia is a place that you need to visit to really understand.  Click on the picture for many, many more photos and words about my take on this Caribbean port city. -Dr.

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I was given backstage press privileges for the Newport Folk Festival this past year.  Click on the picture for tons of photos and words about the experience.  Bands include The Head and the Heart, Gary Clark Jr., The Tallest Man on Earth, Charles Bradley, and more.  Enjoy!

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Another blog post by yours truly about my experience in Panama City.  Lots of photos and words if you click the photo. 

-Dr.

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Come away with me to Bocas del Toro, Panama.  Secluded beaches lined with Palm trees, star fish, and warm shallow Caribbean seas.  Click on the photo link below for more photos and words. -Dr.

http://theadventuresofadr.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/its-always-sunny-in-bocas-del-toro/