From matrimony to Machu Picchu, the adventure of a lifetime

Here Genevieve leads us on a tropical garden tour in Peru. Behold the bizarre starfruit tree, luscious pineapple bushes, papaya clusters, bunches of plantains, mango trees, basil, lemons, limes, coconuts, and a nursery for saplings. This is Inkaterra’s garden within their Reserva Amazonica Lodge.

Watching this video here in cold grey Chicago makes us long for those sweltering jungle days! A tall glass of chilled starfruit juice wouldn’t be bad either.

The girls in this case are Lisa, Wendy, Genevieve, Grace, Abby, and Ava.

We burned up the lanes last weekend for a post-holiday get together. Strike!

Here’s Mike’s other clip that aired on the travel channel this past December. It’s of mountain gorillas in Bwindi National Park, Uganda. Hoooo!

What’s the best way to see the amazing biodiversity up in the jungle canopy? By climbing up there and walking around!

Join Genevieve and Mike on one of South America’s largest jungle canopy bridge systems. Suspended 103 feet above the ground, we walked for more than a quarter mile through the treetops.

Millions of species, many still undiscovered, spend their entire lives in this realm. We didn’t see anything besides birds, but it was still pretty awesome to venture where, until recently, only scientists could.

The Inkaterra lodge, in partnership with World Bank and National Geographic, created this system of two towers and seven hanging bridges, woven through the crowns of the tallest trees.

It’s considered one of the safest canopy walkways in the world, but that’s not to say it wasn’t a little scary up there!

At last, some video from our honeymoon in Peru.

This first installment is set in the steamy rainforest of Manú National Park. Here we explore an oxbow lake that’s home to endangered giant river otters, red howler monkeys, macaws, anacondas, point-tailed palm creepers and side-neck turtles.

In this vid you’ll see Brown Capuchin monkeys, turtles, jumping fish, tropical ducks and the Hoatzin, or stink bird, who smells like fresh poo! You’ll also meet our guide Efraine, the tallest Peruvian we saw during our three weeks there. One of the nicest and mellowest too.

We did this excursion with InkaTerra’s Reserva Amazonica. Pricey but recommended.

Here are photos from our stay in the jungle.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Genevieve and Mike.

Wishing you peace and love for 2008!

Here I am on “What’s Your Trip?” a user-generated show hosted by Andrew Zimmern. This clip features the show’s intro and my ostrich riding segment.

I don’t know what I’m more excited about - that they ran my clip or that Andrew pronounced my name correctly!

They also aired my piece about mountain gorilla, which I’ll post here soon.

Hoooooooooo! I finally got my 90 seconds of fame.

Wow. Just realized that we never posted photos of our visit to legendary Machu Picchu!

Shame on us. We got so busy cutting up wedding video that we forgot to post photos from the best part of our honeymoon.

Which reminds us, we’ve got loads of video from Machu Picchu and everywhere else we visited in Peru. Stay tuned.

-> Click to see a slideshow with larger photos on Flickr.

Here’s the greatest hits vid from our big day, from the altar to the dance floor. Go, go happy feet!