Portable Parents Blog

You know it is going to be a good day when you get off of a bus after 18 hours and both your kids say “that was a good bus ride!” It was 8:30 a.m. and we had just arrived in Posadas, the first of our three leg journey from Salta to a small town...

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After nearly 3 months in Peru it was time to move on.  We knew we wanted to get to Argentina and spend a couple of months traveling around the western part of the country before we headed to Buenos Aires to meet up with Gina’s mom in August. Sitting in Cusco we basically had 2...

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South American travel destinations are growing in popularity, and offer travelers some really cool, unique ecological and cultural places of interest to visit and learn more about. While Mexico and Central America get the majority of U.S. travelers, we chose South America for both what we knew about the continent, but more so for what...

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Ok, so yesterday I told you that we crossed the border into Argentina a little over a week ago, what I did not tell you is that we have been trying to set a Guinness Record for most Argentine beef consumed in a week.  Possibly an exaggeration… I for one (this is Sean) swore off...

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We’ve received a few emails asking if we were still alive and where we were…as the title suggests we have arrived in Argentina! We crossed the border from Villazon, Bolivia to La Quiaca, Argentina a little over a week ago.  Another uneventful border crossing (nice!), although the wait was more than 2 hours because we...

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