The Homeschool Alternative
When we decided to live and travel in South America Homeschooling was a natural alternative for us, we obviously did not have the “luxury” of public school and since we were not planning on being in one place for more than a couple of months enrolling the kids in a local...
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Imagine what you would pack if you were preparing to travel for a year or more. All of the pants, shirts, shoes, jackets, toiletries, books, electronics, and various knick knacks…now throw it all away and start again!
This time pack it all into a single carry-on suitcase!
What sort of climate you ask? Well, you need to...
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We arrived in Buenos Aires on Sunday Morning! We are staying at a friends flat in an area known as Palermo Soho in the South West part of the city. We have not seen much of the city yet, but 2 things we know for certain…
1) It is winter in Argentina
2)We look so out of...
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Drum roll please….
Gina and I made the decision that we will return with the kids to the U.S. sometime in September!
What this means is not exactly clear…the decision was really more of a “what next” moment than a long thought out plan of our next steps.
Gina’s mother and step father are visiting us in Buenos...
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We made it!
We crossed the border on Wednesday, two days before our visa’s expired. When we reached our destination of Piura, Peru we were all exhausted from a long week, but we still had a bit more of traveling to do.
The trip from Loja was longer than expected, and there were only 2 buses heading...
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We spent Tuesday nite in Loja Ecuador after a manageable 5.5 hour ride down from Cuenca. We splurged and decided to stay in a “3″ star hotel, apparently one of the finest in the city. Lets just say that everything is relative…
Traveling with 4 people we run into unusual circumstances about costs in certain situations. ...
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Part 2
We decided to travel light, only bringing a change of underwear and a clean shirt, and throwing these into a backpack. On Tuesday morning we woke up early, showered, grabbed a quick bite to eat, and set out for Columbia. The walk to the bus terminal is about a mile from our apartment, we...
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A quick update. We have not had many posts this week and I’ll share a little bit about what is slowing that down, as well as our current travel plans. But first…
Last night the power went out in town. The power goes off a couple times a month…as does the water and...
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We have already taken 10’s of thousands of photos and I have kept maybe 30% of these. Just the process of managing our photos has turned into quite the project. I was working on these yesterday and thought I would post some of my favorite of the kids and Gina…maybe one or two of the...
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I read a discussion the other day about slow travel and what it meant. The debate was fairly heated, which seems a little silly to me because I think that the term can mean different things to different people and still be acceptable.
But apparently we need one definition. I also found out that the...
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