Foreign Travel Information

We're also interested in adventure travel in foreign lands. We've organized many group trips to Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, Chile, Peru, Nepal, and New Zealand. From 1984-1994, we traveled in southern Mexico for close to a month every year. We've driven nearly 10,000 miles on their highways. Our most recent van trip there was a wonderful combination van and backpack to Las Barrancas de Cobre (Copper Canyon). We are especially attracted to the Meso-American archaeological sites that are scattered over southern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. We've visited most of them.
Our Canadian trips have focused on the beautiful provinces of British Colombia and Alberta. We've van camped in the major Rockies National Parks (Banff, Yoho, Kootenay, and Jasper) and backpacked the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island several times. More recently we driven the Alcan highway to Alaska on a couple of occasions spending time exploring the Yukon around Whitehorse.
During September of 1997 we spent a month around Cuzco, Peru soaking up modern Andean culture and visiting major Inca ruin sites followed by two 5 day backpacks of the Inca Trail. We returned to Peru for a one week group trip in June of 1999 and spent time post-trip traveling around Lake Titicaca with a friend. We explored the highland country of Guatemala and many of the lowland Mayan sites for a month in the spring of 2003.
In February of 1998 we organized a two week group trip to New Zealand followed by a month of solo exploration in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Himalayas of Nepal. The following year we spent six weeks in Nepal tea house trekking in the Annapurna Sanctuary, whitewater rafting on the Kali Gandaki River, culture sifting in its major cities, and jungle adventuring at Chitwan. We hope to return in the future to trek to the Mt. Everest basecamp in eastern Nepal and raft the Karnali River in its isolated western region. In 2000 we spent a month traveling mostly in Patagonian Chile.