Tag: South America

Birthday in the Clouds

Most women fear their 30th birthday. Thirty means you’re old. A bonafide adult. An old hag. Ok. Maybe not an old hag, but definitely no longer cool. So from the minute I entered the last year of my twenties, I started planning a distraction. How would cool / hip twenty year-old me want to end Read More

The Two Mile High City

Machu Picchu – UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of World. It was my goal to spend my 30th birthday here, but doing so meant flying into Cusco, the two mile high city. Cusco sits at 11,152 ft (3,399m) making it the 9th highest large city (> 100K inhabitants) in Read More