Category Archives: Pre-trip

On your right you’ll see spectacular views of the Andes

Strange at 4am I decide to put pen to paper or these days keyboard to screen and begin to write about my days and thoughts of our year ahead. I am wide awake out of sync with our time zones. … Continue reading

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Race against the clock

It has been 6 years since our last backpacking travel being Burma and that was only for 3 weeks, so we, correction, I, was a little out of practice.  I just was not ready to start our adventure.  Needed at … Continue reading

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Moving out

Moving out of a house we have lived in for 13 years proved much more difficult than we expected. The amount of stuff accumulated over that time is just staggering, and with limited time to vacate the house by December … Continue reading

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And so it begins again …

After years of talking about it, we finally decided to take a year off and travel / work overseas.

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