Leaving Cusco for Lima!
After 2 months in Cusco, we have now moved on to Milaflores in Lima where we will stay for the next few weeks! Lima is the capital of Peru and is located on the coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. After being away from the ocean for the last two months we have been looking forward […]
4th July Celebrations at Machu Picchu
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYYeLbihAxc For The Unstoppable Family, 4th July is a holiday that is at the top of our list. We’re all about freedom and so Independence Day is an extremely important holiday for us! We live a lifestyle where we have the freedom to travel the world! For Independence Day here in Cusco we spent a […]
Inti Raymi Celebration in Cusco
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7sEY72yTE June 24th marked Inti Raymi, the second largest festival in South America after Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. After two weeks straight of festivals and parades, it all culminated in this spectacular celebration! Inti Raymi, “Festival of the Sun”, was an Inca festival that celebrated the Sun God, Inti, at the end of the […]
Winter Solstice in Cusco
Whilst the rest of you in the northern hemisphere are probably celebrating the Summer Solstice, we’ve been celebrating the Winter Solstice in Cusco, Peru! The Winter Solstice in the southern hemisphere takes places between June 21st and June 24th, on the shortest days of the year. It all culminates in the Inti Raymi celebration on […]
Celebrating Corpus Christi in Cusco, Peru
The month of June is a huge celebration here in Cusco, Peru. It has been an amazing few weeks of festivals, ceremonies and parades! We’ve been celebrating the Winter Solstice, Corpus Christi and finally Inter Raymi on June 24th. Here’s a behind the scenes video of Corpus Christi… Corpus Christi is a religious festival the begins 60 […]
Father’s Day 2011: Peruvian Style!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfNnaSxL_Tg June 19th marked Father’s Day, although this was not your typical Father’s Day for the Unstoppable Family. In true Unstoppable Family style we celebrated Father’s Day 2011 in Cusco, Peru with parades, floats and market shopping!
Celebrating our birthdays in Cusco, Peru
Brian and I both have birthdays within 4 days of each other and we celebrated them here in Cusco, Peru last week. Every year we are in a different country celebrating in a different way. Last year it was in Fiji at the Hideaway Resort when they surprised us with a fire sign on the […]
10 Beautiful Photos from Machu Picchu
We had a mind-blowing, Unstoppable experience here at Machu Picchu for our company’s Destiny Event. Machu Picchu is on the list of the new Seven Wonders of the World and has been on our bucket list for quite some time. Now we can tick it off! Since we are lost for words to describe how […]
Dogs are so North America! Alpaca are our friends!
We’ve been making some new friends here in Cusco, Peru…with Alpaca! Yes dogs are soooooo North America! Here in Peru Hanalei has been playing with gentle, furry Alpacas. What’s so incredible about our traveling lifestyle is that our daughter Hanalei gets to experience so many things that she would only see in a textbook back […]
Commuting to Work on the Machu Picchu Train!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbLW-XgFXh4 What does your morning commute look like? Do you drive in traffic to and from work? We did when we worked in corporate jobs back in the U.S. but we examined our lives and felt we weren’t really living…so we did what any sane person would do…we ditched all that to travel the world! Our […]