We Found Paradise, It’s In Patagonia

  Though the Carretera starts its journey in Puerto Montt, only a few miles exist until the road ends, quickly submerging underwater. Here lies the first of many mandatory ferry crossings. The first was a short 45 minutes, hugging the more »

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Lake District or Columbia Gorge?

After meeting up with friends from back home for a fantastic New Years celebration we awoke at 6am and sped down the deserted highway to the Santiago airport. Joe’s little sister Hilary was flying in from LA and with only more »

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Would you like salt with that? Adventures in Bolivia.

With the Bolivian border in our sights, we pulled into a rundown Peruvian gas station and filled our tank in anticipation of the gas difficulties that we’ve been told lie ahead. It is not technically illegal to sell gas to more »

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Peru, Land of the Incas..and Penguins!

After the high altitude hiatus of Ecuador we hightailed it to the sandy beaches of Mancora, Peru. We found a sweet place to camp at Kon Tiki, a hostal perched atop a hill overlooking town and endless miles brilliant blue more »

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In the Land of Cheap Gas

We have come to a somewhat embarrassing and hard to admit fact. Okay, two. 1. We have decided for the sake of our bank accounts and Snowy’s love of adventure, that we are indeed planning on selling the truck at more »

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A Gringo’s Guide to Trafficking Cocaine in Colombia

Sorry to disappoint, it’s actually just our boring old blog… We asked for cold weather and boy did we get it. At 15,500ft. with non-stop winds racing through the El Cocuy National Park valley, we bundled up in each and more »

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An Argentinian Christmas

We were flying down the smooth, black surface at rapid speed, long gone were the hours of persistent washboard and potholes lying in wait. We had finally made it out of the lunar SW Bolivian landscape. Pointing our nose West, more »

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Step-by-step Guide on How to Get From Panama to Colombia

“The best step-by-step shipping instructions ever produced” – The Gringo Gazette So I know we said we weren’t going to do a shipping write-up, but I just couldn’t help myself. Step 1: Acquire latest overland shipping write-ups. Read through. Disregard. more »

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Salty San Blas & Slow Shipping Blues

  The dreaded day had arrived. But not before we met up with friends, and fellow overlanders Graham and Jenna (whom, GASP, do not have a blog) in Boquete, Panama. While enjoying Boquete’s fresh mountain air, we confirmed shipping with more »

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All Good in the Hood

Glancing at our last blog post, I realized I ended with a ‘to be continued’ type vibe, entailing I would describe our  San Jose scramble in the following post. My bad. Plus, it’s almost time we got on the road more »

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Costa Rainy

Backing up about two and a half months ago to the beautiful land of Nicaragua… After a round of Nicaraguas Flor de Cana shots with the Gigante family, it was finally time to put the slice of paradise we called more »

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Our Accidental Vacation

Sorry folks, no camera to take pictures with, these are from their website. There are many joys that come with living on the beach; sunsets, warm weather and daily dips in the ocean. But crossing the Costa Rican border every more »

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Here, there and everywhere in between

Long time no blog everyone! As some of you may or may not know, we slacked, our hosting expired and when restarted it deleted our latest blogs, then we were broken into, and as it turns out, blogging without a more »

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El Sombra Monstruo

Before coming to Guatemala we had heard stories about a monster that lurks in the shadows, waiting for its next victim to stray from the path, only to fall into its enormous jaws. The native Mayan people call them “Sombra more »

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“Would you like to switch to pedestrian mode?

Where did we leave off… ? It appears we’ve let our blog writing go by the wayside over the past few weeks as we twisted and turned our way up, down, back up and back down Guatemala’s countryside. After spending more »

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unBELIZEably awesome!

  at the Belize/Mexico border Three jerry cans filled to the brim with cheap Mexican gas and we were ready to hit the Belizean border. Immigration, fumigation, and a bridge crossing later we had successfully smuggled our goods across the more »

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Oceans, Deserts and Mountains, Oh My!

A few days rest in Puerto Escondido was just what we needed after bouncing from town to town in Mexico’s interior. We found Puerto to be a bit unfriendly to be honest but the little cove beaches to the north more »

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The Gaucho and the Thorn

We reluctantly left the comforts of San Miguel de Allende and headed down the trail to Puebla. Arriving that afternoon in Cholula, an offshoot of Puebla, we weaved our way to the campground, our stomachs begging to be fed, we more »

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Little boxes on the hillside

Guanajuato—SM de Allende With Sayulita’s sandy beaches and perfectly curling waves in our rear view mirror we reluctantly headed inland in hopes of reaching the much talked about Guanajuato in a few days time. Yes, it may be a long more »

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To the Mainland!

After what seemed like a hop, skip and a jump we had driven the length of Baja and were headed to the ferry terminal in La Paz. Though we didn’t spend an extended amount of time in Baja, we felt more »

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