Travels with John Smith

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 60 year 9 (2020)

Peru Part 3

Machu Picchu, Cusco Carnival

-train ride beside the Urubamba River

-eating guinea pig in Aguas Calientes

-Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu

-a Book called, “Turn Right at Machu Picchu”

-Walking around Machu Picchu 

-Market choices in Cusco

-Rainbow Flag

-One advantage of altitude

-dancers twirling

-Spraying foam for fun

-Refuge above the square

-Mayhem below

-discovery

- like secret agents

-no escape

-altitude sickness and homesick

-Mom’s 90th

-COVID 19 comes to Saskatchewan

-Things get cancelled

-Back to the present

-future plans with John Smith

-email addresses for you to contact us

-Thank you

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 59 year 9 (2019-2020)

Peru Part 2

Arequipa and Cusco

-Another Plaza de Armas

-Hotel with a view

-Zig Zag is delicious

-The Cathedral that kept coming back

-A room for a jewel thief

-white volcanic rock in a quarry

-under the charm of some alpacas

-a mummy named Juanita

-potato tasting

-Monastery village

-Cusco introduction

-Altitude sickness is real

-Cathedral built on top of a temple

-starting to spread

-cheeky artists get into the paintings

-Sacsayhuaman big rocks

-Cusco views a photo op

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 58 year 9 (2020)

Peru Part 1

Lima, Trujillo and Huanchaco

-Lima’s Ceviche

-The cliffs above the Pacific Ocean

-Larcomar shopping mall 

-Barranco art

-The Larco museum and erotic art

-Peruvian Hairless

-1st class bus ride 

-Steve and Nancy show us around

-Huanchaco living

-Purple jellyfish

-Tacu Tacu my new fav food

-Chan Chan mud palace

-Trujillo’s kilometre long mosaic wall

-Temples of the sun and moon

-Deserted beach and discovering Inca Cola

-Thai restaurant in a ghost town

-Thank you
-An apology 
-further dates to listen
-Anything is possible 

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 57 year 9 (2019-2020)

London, Canada and Ecuador

-cool places in London

-back in Canada

-finding a place to live

-stuff in a truck from BC

-boxes, painting and settling

-planning a trip for Chinese NY

-Xmas with family

-1st hearing about the virus in Wuhan

-masks or not? 

-Boutique hotel in Quito

-Old town Unesco site

-Eating chicken with the locals

-A volcano where people live and crops grow

-neighbourhood watch during the riots

-middle of the world

-experiments on the equator

-Amazonian and Indigenous customs

-‘The Queen of Water’ true story

-guinea pigs and deadlier animals

-chocolate and the making of it

-the plaza and it’s going on

-5:00 AM at the bus station

-12 hours plus on a bus

-Manta, the beach

-Henry’s double

-Christian’s seafood heaven

-flying is faster

-food poisoning?

-altitude sickness?

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 56 year 8 (2019)

Berlin and Lisbon

(We love Europe)

-Checkpoint Charlie

-buying a piece of the wall

-The ‘Fraternal kiss’

-What the Brandenburg Gate represents

-Naked Entertainment in the Pariser Place

-German Pretzels 

-View from the River Spree

-The Cement maze memorial

-victims of the Holocaust

-Topography of Terror

-Bikini Berlin Mall

-Buddy Bear Project

-The post office

-Naked fountain

-a steep climb 

-1st view of Lisbon

-Fish and Fado

-the Praco do Comercio square 

-Polish tuk tuk driver

-the white church with a view

-Miradouro Largo das Portas do Sol custard tarts

-the weekend market shoe shop

-train to Sintra

-meeting with Bryce in Cascais

-more views in the old quarter 

-Fado CD’s

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 55 year 8 (2019)

Bangkok, Beijing and Warsaw

(Food and Fun in 3 places)

-School ends and a surprise trip

-jamming in Bangkok

-shopping at Chatuchak weekend market

-Being a tourist with Jeanine

-Standing Buddha

-Beijing Duck with Mizar

-Grandma’s Hutong

-Mizar’s music

-Noodle heaven

-Warsaw airport bus

-Hard Rock Cafe Warsaw

-Tallest Building in Poland

-Freeloading on the bus

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 54 year 8 (2019)

Zhangjiajie, Wuhan

-crazy rides

-mountain refuge

-free entry

-Zhangjiajie Avatar mountains

-hiding from the monkeys 

-KTV sad

-Grandma’s food

-pool with a view

-bad line up

-very very bad line up

-Simon and the ‘guitar boys’

-Anything is possible

-eating favourite foods

-saying goodbye

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 53 year 8 (2019)

Chinese New Year with Pat and Lyle

Kou Lipe and Kou Lanta, Thailand

-boat trip to Kou Lipe

-customs on a beach

-a cabin in paradise 

-Sunrise

-relaxing

-Saying goodbye

-no peeking

-cabanas in nature

-bicycles

-refuge from the rain

-beach life

-disco taxi

-visit with Gabby and family

-Dawn Marie and I get our feet nibbled

-Old Town mishap

-give this up?

-meeting the Prime Minister of Thailand

-changed plans

Travels with John Smith

Chapter 52 year 8 (2019)

Chinese New Year with Pat and Lyle

Penang and Langkawi, Malaysia 

-The museum hotel George Town

-Lyle and a new friend 

-third eye ceremony

-Peranakan mansion 

-Captain China’s place

-red enveloppe 

-gigantic reclining Buddha

-a little history

-booking hotels online 

-Langkawi beach and a big jellyfish

-night market and Malaysian food

-Langkawi bridge in the sky

-details about the bridge

-foot spa in Oriental village

-Romantic Valentines Dinner

-The giant Eagle 

-Island hopping plan

- Sardines in a speedboat