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    Joropo. A brief account of our Easter vacation in the Colombian Eastern Plains

    As it often happens, we decided where to go next in a discussion properly accompanied with food and drinks. No one said that trip planning couldn’t be as fun as the trip itself. In the end, we decided our Easter destination would be Colombia, where we would try to visit the Parque Nacional...
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    Caracas to Cusco in 7 days

    Last Christmas we drove 11.200 Kms (6,960 miles) from Caracas to Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Our plan was to attend a friend's 70th birthday celebration in Cusco, Peru, as he wanted to arrive to Machu Pichu, after walking the Inka Trail, the day of his birthday. Due to work obligations...
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    About the backwards facing snorkel conundrum

    After many unsuccessful attempts to google a definitive answer to this issue, we decided to conduct our own test to try to determine what happens when you turn your snorkel's intake backwards. I'm happy to say that we believe that we were able to quantify the difference in intake restriction...
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    A short Sunday afternoon drive Part I

    Yesterday afternoon we decided to make a short trip to El Camino de los Españoles, in Cerro El Ávila, which is the mountain that separates the north of Caracas city from the sea. This camino, or road, was the communication route from the capital city of Caracas to the port where all the goods...
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    Aug. 2010. San Casimiro de Guiripa to San Sebastián de los Reyes weekend outing. I

    San Casimiro de Guiripa to San Sebastián de los Reyes weekend outing. August 21 &22, 2010. I’d like to start by apologizing because most of these pictures have already been posted in the Land Cruiser area. But when I saw this last night, I decided that the best I could do was to post last...
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    An exploration trip to Gran Sabana, Venezuela. Part 1

    Among the activities for this summer, we got an invitation to a Little known area in the venezuelan Gran Sabana where some quartz mining concessions have been granted. As a result, and due to the celebration of a couple of birthdays and the visit of a very dear friend from abroad, a group of...
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    Expedition to Macuro, Venezuela. October 2.000

    During October 2.000, our current president, or is it dictator? announced on national television that a road had been opened to Macuro, which happens to be the first place on the American continent mainland where Cristopher Columbus set foot. Until then, Columbus had only visited the islands in...
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