Good-NESS – whodda thought? Who’d have thought that this life-long wanderlust would still be tucked upon the same 8,400+ foot pile of Andean rock – 10 years later? A decade ago (not surprisingly) the halls here at TL were chock-full of posts about all the new things I was discovering here in my new home [&hellip You're reading Cuenca 10 Year Anniversary! originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

***Red Alert***         !DANGER!          ***Red Alert** RANT AHEAD !!! Please proceed with extreme caution I simply couldn’t sit silent any longer. As a life-long avowed veteran DIY (ever solo) traveler, I of course can’t help but suck my daily juicebox of armchair wanderlust from the likes of numerous Facebook [&hellip You're reading Travel Today… UGH. :( originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

The final days of 2023 are swiftly slipping away, and I’m anxious to share the details of one last memorable afternoon among my many adventures up north in my adopted home of Ecuador this year. A somewhat last minute decision to sign up for a Street Art Walking Tour in the La Floresta neighborhood in [&hellip You're reading Quito Street Art originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

‘Tis (once again) the season. And for those of us who hail from the U.S. of A. – it all begins with a Thanksgiving feast. Of course the 4th Thursday in November isn’t a holiday here in Ecuador (rather, Ecuadorians similarly gather for dinner with their entire family – every. blessed. Sunday!) And furthermore, for [&hellip You're reading Thanksgiving Tasting Menu at Casa Dyannita originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

Yep, I did it again. Went and recklessly dropped $100+ on LUNCH. Much like my amazing 17 course lunch at Central in Lima Peru 6 years ago (then, ranked 5th in the World; today, in 2023 it’s number 1!), I once again couldn’t resist sampling a bit of the World’s most venerated cuisine. Indeed, the [&hellip You're reading Nuema originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

Always good to shake things up a bit in life. Be it changing your job, your hair style, or in my case – life-long travel to ever new places. It changes your perspective and illuminates the contrasts between home and elsewhere… And so it was – after nearly 10 years living here in Cuenca – [&hellip You're reading Northern Ecuador Adventures originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

No matter if the destination lies a gazillion air miles away, or but a quick whiz north to the capital of my (now near 10 year) adopted home in Ecuador. Either way, the (ever delightful) research/prep for exploring yet another new corner of the Planet is pretty much exactly the same. So I thought I’d [&hellip You're reading *FINALLY* A Peek at Quito (and Surrounds) originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

A chum here in Cuenca recently returned from a visit to Turkey and posted some of her photos, which reminded me… Yes, yes – Turkey for me was wondrous – among my all-time favorite destinations yet… Though I did manage to peck no fewer than *15* different TL posts here on my 6 week skip [&hellip You're reading Time to Fill in the Gaps: Dubrovnik, Montenegro & Turkey originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

Not complaining mind you, but the truth is… While I’ve never been a “country counter”, what with 50+ foreign lands under my life-long gossamer travel belt, lately I’ve been seriously stymied as to where to head for my next adventure.  Granted, 50-odd countries still leaves more than a HUNDRED AND FORTY sovereign lands scattered across [&hellip You're reading The Dilemma of a Veteran Traveler originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more

The final chapter of my Mexico trifecta: the beach... the BEACH! You're reading Mexico Trifecta! (Chapter Three: Puerto Escondido) originally posted on TravelnLass and copyrighted by Dyanne Kruger ..read more