I feel like I should cue the Coldplay song right about now…. but I won’t. In all honesty, today wins the “most random post” award, so just go with it!

I was searching through my photo archives last night because I’m on the prowl to make a few new collages for my walls. Although I don’t do a lot of decorating with artwork, I am a big fan of photography and my walls are mostly covered with various pics that I have taken throughout my travels. I stumbled across quite a few good ones and thought I’d share 🙂

And if you hate pictures, you should probably just check back in tomorrow. It’s cool, I understand!

This is the Colca Canyon in Peru. Although I had never even heard of it before venturing into South America, I guess it is known as the deepest canyon in the world– over twice as deep as the Grand Canyon! We found a guide and spent a day trekking into the canyon, followed by a second (loooooooonger) day trekking out. Pretty sure I took lots of pics so I could stop to catch my breath!!

Just a few locals that I saw walking by me in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. For some reason, I loved the bright orange cloaks that they wore.

This adorable guy was the nephew of our guide when we went into the Amazon in Ecuador. This adventure was another one of those “kinda sorta scary” moments because our guide took our boat and left us around 10pm on New Year’s Eve. I remember laying in our hut and hearing the boat roar off, not knowing where he went or whether he was going to come back. Turns out, he wanted to party with some indigenous peeps for NYE (seriously!)  Luckily, he took us piranha fishing the next day to make up for it. I was terrible at fishing, but this guy was awesome. Plus, he loved it when I took photos of him since he could see them immediately on the digital screen 🙂

We hiked up Mt. Sinai in Egypt to watch the sunset, and I could. not. get. over. the camels everywhere! I mean, they don’t just have camels wandering around Colorado! A lot of out-of-shape people hired camels to help them trek to the summit of Mt. Sinai, and I think this guy was just chilling, waiting for some business!
(Doesn’t it look like he is posing for me?!)

I think we summitted Mt. Rainier around 8-9am (after leaving Camp Muir at midnight). I am accustomed to climbing peaks in Colorado where you are surrounded by other huge mountains, so it was slightly shocking for me to get to the top of Rainier and see this! If I remember correctly, this is Mt. Hood, all the way in Oregon!

I rode an elephant in Thailand. Everyone else had a partner or a husband or something, but since it was just me, all of the male elephant drivers took a liking to the single gal. By the time I was done with my three-hour trek, I had bonus pillows to sit on, an umbrella over my head to protect me from the sun, and about a zillion photos (like this one!), courtesy of my driver 🙂

Tokyo. Pure chaos. I couldn’t get over how one part of the city was beautiful and old and green and then the next block would be flashing lights and neon signs!

I feel like I should cue the Coldplay song right about now…. but I won’t. In all honesty, today wins the “most random post” award, so just go with it!

I was searching through my photo archives last night because I’m on the prowl to make a few new collages for my walls. Although I don’t do a lot of decorating with artwork, I am a big fan of photography and my walls are mostly covered with various pics that I have taken throughout my travels. I stumbled across quite a few good ones and thought I’d share 🙂

And if you hate pictures, you should probably just check back in tomorrow. It’s cool, I understand!

This is the Colca Canyon in Peru. Although I had never even heard of it before venturing into South America, I guess it is known as the deepest canyon in the world– over twice as deep as the Grand Canyon! We found a guide and spent a day trekking into the canyon, followed by a second (loooooooonger) day trekking out. Pretty sure I took lots of pics so I could stop to catch my breath!!

Just a few locals that I saw walking by me in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. For some reason, I loved the bright orange cloaks that they wore.

This adorable guy was the nephew of our guide when we went into the Amazon in Ecuador. This adventure was another one of those “kinda sorta scary” moments because our guide took our boat and left us around 10pm on New Year’s Eve. I remember laying in our hut and hearing the boat roar off, not knowing where he went or whether he was going to come back. Turns out, he wanted to party with some indigenous peeps for NYE (seriously!)  Luckily, he took us piranha fishing the next day to make up for it. I was terrible at fishing, but this guy was awesome. Plus, he loved it when I took photos of him since he could see them immediately on the digital screen 🙂

We hiked up Mt. Sinai in Egypt to watch the sunset, and I could. not. get. over. the camels everywhere! I mean, they don’t just have camels wandering around Colorado! A lot of out-of-shape people hired camels to help them trek to the summit of Mt. Sinai, and I think this guy was just chilling, waiting for some business!
(Doesn’t it look like he is posing for me?!)

I think we summitted Mt. Rainier around 8-9am (after leaving Camp Muir at midnight). I am accustomed to climbing peaks in Colorado where you are surrounded by other huge mountains, so it was slightly shocking for me to get to the top of Rainier and see this! If I remember correctly, this is Mt. Hood, all the way in Oregon!

I rode an elephant in Thailand. Everyone else had a partner or a husband or something, but since it was just me, all of the male elephant drivers took a liking to the single gal. By the time I was done with my three-hour trek, I had bonus pillows to sit on, an umbrella over my head to protect me from the sun, and about a zillion photos (like this one!), courtesy of my driver 🙂

Tokyo. Pure chaos. I couldn’t get over how one part of the city was beautiful and old and green and then the next block would be flashing lights and neon signs!