We wanted to back up a little and give you some idea of our route. From Mendoza we headed south on the famous Ruta 40. Ruta 40 runs the length of the country along it’s western border following the toes of the Andes and some pretty remote areas. They are only now getting around to […]
Argentina
OK. We’re starting to feel the cold.
It’s windy. It’s peaky. It’s confounding…in a life changing way. The weather has started to change. No more dry and hot air and afternoon iced teas. Now we’re bundled up and we have our wind breakers on if we decide to be outside for more than 10 minutes. And we’ve taken to drinking mate. And […]
For Kids ONLY: Roadtrips…What’s the Big Idea ANYWAY?
“A road trip again?!?!! Mom, I don’t want to sit in a car for a million hours ever again!!!” Have you ever had this feeling when your parent announced what your next family vacation was going to be? Trips don’t sound good right off the bat, but you have to give them a chance. Maybe […]
Thankful for this Adventure & Food
You’re probably waking up thinking of all the cooking and preparation ahead of you today. So are we! I have been thinking about Thanksgiving for the last couple of weeks. It’s especially hard to remember that it’s fall in the US because it is a beautiful spring in Argentina right now! I think I’m hanging […]
Shipping our Van to Zárate, Argentina
For out usual readers this will be a bit of a different post that what you are used to. It will probably be a little boring, but I wanted to make sure the details of shipping our van from Jacksonville, Florida to Zárate were published online somewhere. Months back while researching how to do this […]
First Vanlife week in South America: Crossing the Grand/High Sierras of Argentina
Challenges/Amusements of this week: driving in Argentina, figuring out how to find campsites, communicating in Spanish, rapidly changing climate, and regulations of national parks (it hasn’t really been challenging and not bad at all, these are just differences we’re getting accustomed to) Getting out of Buenos Aires has been freeing. Don’t get me wrong, the […]