We all have our favorite blogs that we follow, some of them religiously… eagerly anticipating the next post to see what excitement besets the blogger in question.
I was captivated by many family travel blogs during our research and preparation for our trip and in fact have made new friends exchanging information and ideas about traveling...
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GLUTEN FREE BUENOS AIRES
I have been eating gluten free for the past 7 years (this is Gina). Eating gluten-free in Central and South America has been somewhat more of a challenge than I anticipated. This has been especially true in Argentina, with a huge portion of the population descended from Italian immigrants. Italian dishes such...
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We had a major accomplishment yesterday…we rode a Buenos Aires city bus!
This was not the first bus we rode in the city, but it was the first bus that we used the Guia de Buenos Aires, the rather complicated city bus guide
Buenos Aires is a big, big city and while the cost of a taxi...
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I apologize in advance if I offend anyone that calls Buenos Aires home, but I just have to get this off my chest…
….what is up with all of the Dog Shit on the sidewalks!?
I mean, we are not talking about a few poops here and there, we are talking about huge amounts of dog crap...
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Well the time has come to say goodbye to Refugio Verde and see what awaits us down the road…
After more than 6 weeks in Obera, Argentina we have decided that it is time to get moving again. The housesit has been wonderful, all of us have enjoyed the beautiful property and friendly people we have...
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We decided to stay another month in Trujillo, Peru. Actually we had decided to stay another couple of weeks, but then extended the stay in order to wait on a couple of other packages.
We finally received Grant’s Homeschool Math Program on Wednesday…that was quite an ordeal that took us 4 months, a lot of phone...
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Finally downloaded the pictures from the cameras yesterday. It was fun to look back at the past couple weeks, the journey from Colombia to Northern Peru in pictures. There were more than 400 photo’s but I only kept about 30 or 40 and surprisingly there were more pictures than usual of OUR FAMILY.
My mother in...
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Well the extra day in Quito proved the right decision for us. Grant was feeling much better, almost back to his ole’ self, and made the bus trip without any problems. It was also nice to have an extra day in Quito to do a little exploring.
As you are now familiar with, we have spent...
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Wow…what a week.
We were invited to our friends house for lunch on Sunday, where she prepared fish for our family and another couple. After lunch we walked to the Sacred Springs where we drank the water, a sort of carbonated iron type of taste. It was quite a hike down AND back up the canyon…we...
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For those of you that tuned in for a Travel Log only to find a political diatribe, turn the page and try again in a couple of weeks…
During the last couple of days Gina and I have spoken to friends and family about the events on Tuesday and the impact Obama will have on the...
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