After only one full day on the island of Ilha Grande, we headed on to A Cidade Maravilhosa, or The Marvelous City, of Rio de Janeiro.

World famous for it's sunny days, white sands, crystal clear waters and expansive beaches, Rio has the ultimate in mega-beaches.

Rio de Janeiro's skyline is dominated, not with buildings, but with impressive mountains like Pão de Açúcar. We went to the top of it t...

Who woulda' thought that landscapes seemingly monopolized by America's Southwest could exist in verdant shades of green in Brazil?

With a day like this, it was easy to decide what we were going to do: head to the beach.

This place seems straight out of our dinosaur books when we were little kids: an island made by two volcanoes in a lake so big it looks...

What's Buenos Aires' swankiest address? For both the living, and the dead, it's Recoleta.

Walking around Buenos Aires, you can barely go a couple blocks without seeing someone drinking mate, and so for this quiet day, we too,...

With a couple more sights to see, Benard takes us around Nairobi and invites us to his home in the suburbs.

We heard of a great beach on the other side of the island, so we took off into the forest, despite the discouraging clouds.

Today we got a taste of Germany's long and quite wide ranging history at the Deutsches Historiches Museum, Berlin's national history museum.

Sunday in England means football...of the British variety. We headed to a local pub to catch London's bitter rivals Chelsea and Arsenal...

Starting from the historic Massachusetts State House, through New York City, Dallas and on to Zocalo in Mexico City where the long jaun...

We spend a weekend with our families before heading off to London for leg two of our trip.

With no night buses available between Guatemala and Costa Rica, we are forced to spend our day traveling south from San Salvador to Man...