STILL CHILLY IN ARGENTINA
MALARGUE: CHIVO CENTRAL
Every March this place hosts the great Argentinian national chivo (goat) cookout. Last March they cooked over 1,200… in one day! They say you can smell it from twenty miles away. Requiring special security just to deal with the dogs.
CHANGE IN THE WEATHER
You may have heard it’s cold in Patagonia this time of year. We can officially confirm it!
BOLIVIA!
At $160 dollars a head just to walk across a line in the sand, ($800 for a fam of five), Bolivia started off playing kind of rough. Three months later (the yearly max allowed for us Americans), a dozen stops, and dozens more adventures we’re happy to give the place five unqualified thumbs up. More…
Playahs…
So… we’ve been hanging out at the courts in Argentina lately, and even Malia’s caught the bug. This is what the afterglow of your first eleven ball rally looks like. (Count the fingers)
PERU!
Six months. Fourteen stops. At least two hundred… Read more…
FREEDOM?
We Americans talk a lot about freedom. Believing ourselves to be uniquely free to think and act. More…
ECUADOR!
What a place! More…
THE COLDER THE WATER…
The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
The hotter the fire, the stronger the steel.
The most difficult paths lead to the best views.
Out of suffering emerge the strongest souls.
These sayings, and the many more like them, are the mantras to American life.
The irony is we typically use them to pump ourselves up to make more money, so we can by more creature comforts, and make our lives easier, which will – if we truly believe in the sayings in the first place – make us weaker.
Interesting…
TODOS SOMOS VIAJEROS
Even the briefest examination of our lives reveals one BIG element we all share. More…