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Choose your own adventure – Colombia and Ecuador Maybe the question I get most frequently doing this trip is: ‘how did you plan for a trip like this? I am dreaming up something similar and don’t know where to start.’ The answer is: I chose a destination, a time frame, and beyond that, pretty much […]

The big things are the same, it’s the small things that are different. When traveling outside of the United States, especially into something as seemingly foreign as South America, I expected it to feel very foreign. I expected at all times to feel a sense of otherness, from architecture to temperature to general societal energy, […]

You don’t know Mexico. I’m starting to think life is a series of realizations that the clichés you hear as a kid are true and unknowable until you see their truth in your own life. The one that has been the theme of my trip so far is that you ‘can’t trust the media.’ The […]

I am now more than two months into my trip from Oregon to Patagonia, a full month into Mexico. We made it down the Baja peninsula but not without pain. The stretches of desert without towns or villages or visible life were emotionally exhausting. The heat and stress for water and food were not the […]