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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What’s it like to go to School in Guatemala?
We are wrapping up our last week of Spanish language classes, but we’re also learning what it’s like for children to attend school in the small town of San Pedro. I (Alex) has been volunteering on Thursdays and Fridays at a local public school. There are 30 elementary schools here! That’s a lot for a city […]
Second week in Guatemala & Guatemalteco Food
We are currently planning on spending 4 full weeks in San Pedro to become fluent Spanish speakers 🙂 Our scenery will not be changing too much, so I plan on doing posts on specific topics. We’re learning a lot about the food, it’s also a topic we practice a whole lot with our host family […]
Back to School for Us!
We arrived in Guatemala City and couldn’t believe we made it to Central America! The clouds of diesel exhaust and crowded living conditions were a quick reality check. The people are very kind and helpful. It is hard seeing that their world is so different than ours. We’ve been having lots of social justice conversations and thinking […]