Girin Travels
A running log of my travels — cities, coasts, national parks, and ski towns — with photos, an interactive map, and a timeline of the whole road.
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November 21, 2026
Illinois, USA · The Loop & lakefront
Chicago is the great city of the American interior — the third-largest in the country, built where the Great Lakes meet the prairie and the rivers that carried commerce west. After…
December 28, 2026
California / Nevada, USA · Lake Tahoe
Ringing in the new year up in the Sierra — five nights at the lake from December 28 through January 2. Tahoe in winter is a different place from the summer lake: the surrounding pe…
April 10, 2027
District of Columbia, USA · The National Mall
Washington, D.C. was purpose-built to be a capital — a diamond of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia in 1790, laid out on a grand plan of diagonal avenues and open vistas by the F…
The latest stamps in the passport.
July 1, 2007
Cusco · Lima, Peru · Cuzco · Machu Picchu · Lima
Peru was the heart of the Inca Empire — the largest state in the pre-Columbian Americas — and before that of civilizations going back thousands of years. The Spanish conquest of 15…
February 1, 2008
San Salvador, El Salvador · San Salvador · the Maya ruins
El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America — the "Land of Volcanoes," a Pacific coast of surf beaches and coffee-covered highlands with a dee…
June 15, 2010
Baja California Sur, Mexico · Cabo San Lucas
After Katia and I married in 2010, we ran away to the sun in Cabo San Lucas for our honeymoon — pools, sunsets, lunches by the sea, and each other. One of the happiest weeks of my…