The Americas

Hello again. Thank you for coming back. Today is Saturday, day number 77.  We’re running behind a bit, so I’ll be brief. Here is a quick recap of our recent adventures. After leaving LA, we had several days at sea before…

Hello. And welcome back to mikus.com, home of the “Getting There. Doing That.” travel blog. (We haven’t been there, but we’re getting’ there…) Today’s adventure took us to the state of California’s great city of Los Angeles. (a.k.a. LA.)  Los…

Hello, and happy Saturday to all our friends out there. Can you believe it has already been 2 months? Time flies when you’re having, well, let’s just say it’s fun not having to shovel snow… Today we are south of…

Hello all. Thanks for checking back. Today we are in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (a.k.a. Cabo) which translates to “Cape Saint Luke”. We have been lucky enough to have previously visited the fun city of Cabo several times. Karen has…

The itinerary had us docking yesterday at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. There was a tempting excursion available there to snorkel in a world-class underwater statue garden just off of the coast. However, I have to admit that this country’s…

First things first. I am running behind on my door art pictures. Karen changes our door art pretty much daily. So here are some recent pictures.  Much thanks to Tristan who used her extreme talent and her Cricut cutting machine…

Geographically, nearly ~60% of Peru is rainforest, and ~30% is the highlands of the Andes Mountains. Although the desert coast (on the nation’s western edge) only occupies 11% of the country, nearly 90% of its population resides in this area,…

One of the number one things on the entire trip that we have been looking forward to was visiting Machu Picchu. However, two days before we were scheduled to leave, Peru experienced a bit of a political revolution, and for…

Today we visited Arica (pronounce a·ruh·kuh) is a northern city in Chile with a population of 230,000. We went to the 5th floor deck to watch the ship dock. There were huge piles of sand on the docks, as well as thousands…

Today we visited the small port town of Coquimbo (pronounced koh-keem-bvoh) which is the port for the larger La Serena (population 400,000). We opted to explore the port town rather than the larger city to its north. It was cool…