After leaving Tierra del Fuego we were faced with a big decision, which road do we take??? When we started our journey, we went south from Buenos Aires and there was one general path, but now heading north, we suddenly had many. We could either choose small roads that cut through the center of Argentina […]
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Missing Me Yet?
Before we left for our trip I had a hard time accepting that we were going to be so far away from family and friends AND for such a long time! This is compounded even more so because we’re both pretty family oriented people. We enjoy spending time with our families and chatting about the […]
Going South from Mendoza and through the Lakes District
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Arrival in Argentina!
We knew we had a long and arduous travel itinerary to Buenos Aires…there was no other way to do it. We left San Pedro (on the lake) at about 8:30am Saturday and after about 5 hrs and only about 100 miles we made it the airport in Guatemala City (we did switch buses once, and […]
Lola’s Southern Goodbye: Georgia and Florida
We continued to move quickly through South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to reach our delivery date, Wednesday September 21st, at the Port of Jacksonville. Although the ship would not be leaving until October 4th, we were able to drop her off early so that we could spend a little time in Guatemala being tourists before our language course […]
Sprinting Down to South Carolina
We have been on the road for almost a month! Granted a lot of this time was spent with family, we have spent most nights sleeping in Lola and figuring things out how she works or how we’re going to have to work with her! ——- We crossed down from New York to Florida Sept […]
Driving Across the Grand Midwest
Todd has driven across the US twice before, I’ve done it once before. So you would think we have a grasp on the size of our beautiful America….we drove from South Western Wyoming to South Central Michigan and it took 3 full days of driving. No sightseeing, just driving. Wow, you could go to your job and […]
TETONS & JACKSON: a HOLE lot of fun!
Our time in Wyoming has been well spent. Jackson is extremely touristy, but its fun to see people’s rendition of The West. Sadly, there is little to no mention of the history of Native Americans. Its as though the white man just appeared here and the land belonged to him. I’m going to […]