We emerged out of the Ecuadorian jungle! Our next destination was Cotopaxi, one of Ecuador‘s crown jewels. Emerging from the jungle definitely made me feel better temperature wise and I began looking forward to our border crossing to Colombia, only 2 weeks away. I figured everything was going to go great. I didn’t anticipate any cloudy skies, bugs, landslides, or additional […]
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Baños and Beyond Fears of the Steaming Jungle
Our departure from the Galapagos were hard, you know when you’re in an amazing place and the likelihood that you will return is probably never. But, we forged on. In a way, we were very glad to be leaving low elevation coastlines because we are not hot climate people, although we thoroughly enjoy lazy beach […]
Evolutionary Equatorial Magic: The Galapagos
Note to our Readers: We apologize for the massive delay in our posts. In an effort to try to bring you up to speed, we’re going to skip posting about our adventures in Peru and go straight ahead to Ecuador! We promise to write about our travels in Peru eventually. We spent two and a […]
Mom and Dad Came to Visit!
We had more visitors! This time they were very special, my folks! They agreed to come down for two weeks at the beginning of April and visit Chile. Just a little spoiler, we had a blast and we really enjoyed having them. Obviously we couldn’t travel, with them, the same way that Alex and I […]
Argentina’s Great Parks
Again, this is embarrassing, but we are quite behind on our official travel posts. Last time we wrote it was the end of December, and we had just driven the Carretera Austral in Chile, and moving into Argentina. Our “Week in Food“ series, that some will remember, was done during this same time. We rushed a […]
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 […]
KIDS EYES ONLY!!! What did you do this summer?
—RESTRICTED ACCESS—FOR KIDS ONLY!!! Don’t try to read this if you’re an adult or something. This is not for YOU! Teachers are always curious about their students’ summers. Why??? Didn’t they do something fun? Did they just go to teacher camps all summer? This is how I spent the weeks before school started, seeing […]