PNW: Idaho

Our big annual vacation started with flying to Boise in Idaho, with a goal of checking off three Pacific North West states that we’ve never previously visited. We chose a well located downtown hotel for our one day visit, which began with a walk to dinner at The Warehouse a sort of food mall …

Next morning we walked more, including to the state Capitol, along the river – we also found many steam tractors, in the very walkable downtown!

We also visited Freak Alley, with many murals:

PERU 2025

I’ve made a number of separate posts from our recent trip to Peru / Lima / Cusco / Machu Picchu with Overseas Adventure Travel (thanks Ciro!), here they are in chronological order …

Lima

Lima to Cusco to Ollantaytambo to Urubamba

River rafting

Ollantaytambo Sanctuary (Inca ruins)

Hummingbirds

Machu Picchu Overview

Machu Picchu “within the walls”

Aquas Calientes

Cusco and “Temple Of The Sun”

Cusco Farmers Market and Moto Taxis

Cusco Tipon ruins and Saqsaywaman

Cusco festivals (and Ollantaytambo)

PERU 2025: Cusco festivals

Our final day, leaving the hotel after lunchtime to fly back to Lima and then home, needed some careful travel planning due to it being a BIG festival day! Here are some photos before we left:

I’ve not included photos of celebrations we saw earlier in the trip, in Ollantaytambo, so I will include them here:

I also assembled various videos I recorded of the celebrations, to a single YouTube video: