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Latin American Adventure April 12, 2023 thru May 15, 2024 To begin The Adventure we flew out of SFO on April 12, 2023, after purging our...

I’m writing the last bit of this blog from home! On Monday May 6 Abram and I took a four-hour bus ride from Merida to Cancun, picked up a...

(The image above is the main pyramid at Monte Albán, outside Oaxaca City.) Well wow we're almost at the end of this 13-month Latin...

Abram and I left Mexico City on March 12; he took a bus to Guadalajara and I took one to San Miguel de Allende. I'd wanted to visit it...

CDMX = La Ciudad de México We spent five weeks in this gigantic city, 10 million people in the city proper and 22 million in Greater...

One thing that's been very notable in Latin America is bright colors! Here's a selection from several countries: Costa Rica's brightly...

Colombia - our final destination in South America. Abram and I flew from Lima, Peru to Medellín, Colombia a few days before New Year's...

We spent 5 weeks in Perú and were within a few miles of the Pacific Ocean most of the time, in and around Lima and the south-central...

So many near-mythic locations! Tierra del Fuego, the Strait of Magellan. Volcanoes. Penguins. Lakes. Hot springs. Glaciers. Fjords. And...

Chile --- the long skinny country between the Andes and the Pacific - is 2,500 miles long and only 40-200 miles wide. It's divided into 5...

Easter Island! A lifelong dream to visit here. Our 6 days on the island, September 10-16, were spectacular! We were able to score...

August 21, 2023: we are four months into our (probably) 14-month trip and have reached the end of our first visit to Brazil; we depart...

Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Maravilhosa ! On Tuesday July 24 we moved into our new home for the next four weeks, an apartment in Rio's Leblon...

On July 14 Abram, Gail and I left Buenos Aires to see Iguazu Falls. At the Three Borders Mark in Foz do Iguaçu you can stand at the...

After three months in Argentina we leave Friday July 14 for Iguazu Falls, then on to Rio de Janeiro and other destinations in...

Mendoza Province is located on the border of Argentina and Chile, about 600 miles due west of Buenos Aires, on the eastern edge of the...

When traveling it's always interesting to see what people wear. My first foreign travel was to France in 1973, and back then the variety...

La Revolución de Mayo Stolen from an IG page, this woman is wrapped in the blue and white that covers Buenos Aires on May 25. Flags...

Arrived back from Uruguay a few days ago and are settling into our apartment in Recoleta. We've booked this place through July 15 to give...

Uruguayan Getaway! (This is a long post - the entire Uruguayan adventure.) On Sunday April 30, we checked out of our Buenos Aires AirBnb...