New country, new spelling of Iguazu and something new and different for this blog post… Puerto Iguazu is a small Argentinian town that sits on the border with both Brazil and Paraguay. The Iguazu Falls, especially on the Argentinian side, Read more…
We knew we’d come crashing down to earth after our stay in Rio, which came complete with nice hotel and chocolates on the pillow. What we didn’t know, however, was quite how hard that CRASH back into reality would be… Read more…
We really weren’t reaching for an alliterative title here – Rio was fun. The city was fun and happening, the people were always having fun and we all had fun too. More on the fun later, however, first we had Read more…
One of our main activities in Rio was an Eat Rio food tour. While the tour was expensive, it was good for three reasons: First, the food! We sampled a variety of food from various places that we had never Read more…
During our two-day travel lull in Cusco, we thought it would be a good idea to have a ‘vacation’ halfway through our ‘traveling’. (We know, we know, don’t judge us!) Rio would be that vacation. We found a nice, though Read more…
We hadn’t originally planned to go to Brazil at all on this trip, but a few weeks ago a couple of things happened: First, we realized we might never be back to South America. No offense to an entire continent, Read more…
We arrived in Santiago’s airport late at night and took a taxi to our neighborhood in the posh Las Condes area of the city. Even though it was dark we could tell that Santiago was different. Santiago, or at least Read more…
Despite a few of us feeling unwell while we were at our prior stop in Uyuni, Bolivia, we all survived the 12-hour bus ride out of Bolivia and into Chile without any problems. The bus ride wasn’t too bad but Read more…
We stumbled into our last stop in Bolivia, the town of Uyuni, located deep in the Altiplano at over 3,600m (12,000 feet) in elevation, feeling a little under the weather. Fortunately, the town is very small and there was only Read more…
One of the highlights we had planned for our week in Bolivia was a visit to one of the islands, said to be the birthplace of the Incas, in the middle of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Read more…
