Cusco
The Inca capital, where a sun temple's walls still carry a church, lines of shrines once ran out to the mountains, and Quechua festivals go on.
Places
Places that pull me in, written in layers: what is there, how it fits, why it matters to me, and a deep dive. Feed
Göbekli Tepe
A hilltop near Şanlıurfa where hunter-gatherers raised carved stone pillars 11,500 years ago, and the story of what they built keeps changing.
7 stops
Route · Ohio, USAHopewell Route through Ohio
Ohio's Hopewell earthworks, from Newark's Octagon south to the mounds along the Scioto River.
LACMA Geffen
Light stim at the museum opening: sun on the parked cars, breaking into rainbow starbursts.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter
A sandstone overhang in Pennsylvania where people may have camped 16,000 years ago, and an argument that has run for fifty years.
47.9 mi77.1 km9 stops9 crossings
Route · Monterey Bay, California, USAMonterey Bay Beach Walk
The Monterey Bay shore end to end, Natural Bridges to Asilomar, on sand wherever the tide and the rivers allow.
Newark Earthworks
The largest geometric earthworks ever built, laid out to the Moon about 2,000 years ago, and a golf course until 2025.
5 stops
Route · Cusco region, PeruQhapaq Ñan from Cusco
Stretches of the Inca road system out of Cusco, through the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu.