A pregnancy announcement, one huge bear, and a beautiful castle. So there you have it. We met the perfect people to hitchhike with not only because they were going the same way we were, but they were awesome people to be around. Our first stop on our road trip as the fabulous four was Puerto…
Wow, we’re in Patagonia…a place so beautiful it literally brought tears to our eyes. The boat ride from Chiloe was quite the experience. We got all our warm clothes out of our bags, checked our bags in on the bottom floor of the boat, and went to find our seats. The boat was set to…
Hitchhiking, beautiful places, and a God who speaks so clearly!! We left Valdivia with the hopes of hitching all the way to Chiloe in one day. We weren’t really sure what that would look like, but thought it was plausible with the possibility of us getting a hitch with the right person. We got up…
Making our way to Valdivia was quite the experience! We finally did something that we have been talking about since getting into Chile. It was time to stick our thumbs out and take the initiative to save some money on transportation, challenge our Spanish with locals, and add one more adventure to our list. We…
Volunteering was one of our goals while backpacking through South America. We weren’t sure where or when this was going to happen, however, we knew when we were supposed to stop and volunteer it would be clear to us. When we went out to the Trankurra Farm for Alex and Jon’s birthday dinner, we didn’t…
After getting off the bus from Santiago, we could instantly tell a difference in the weather. The morning was very crisp and cold. Everything had dew on it and you could see your breath: we were ten hours further south. We walked across the street to the TurBus terminal to wait an hour so…
After being in Mendoza for a few days, we asked our CouchSurfing host from Santiago if we could stay with him again. When he replied he said that we could stay with him as long as we needed to, and after staying with him for five nights we were all a little sad that it…
January 2, 2015 we woke up to slowly make our way to the bus station to leave Vina Del Mar and head to Mendoza. We thought our bus left at 8:30, and we needed to be at the bus station at 8:15, but we started second guessing ourselves and checked our ticket and it said…
So Christmas relaxing on a gorgeous beach it was. If you remember from a previous post, we were planning on heading to Santiago/Mendoza for Christmas, but the Lord had other plans. Heading to Iquique, we didn’t know much about the town except for the fact that it was a beach town in Northern Chile with…
Interested in cooking for yourself, but don’t have a stove to do it?! We feel ya, camp stoves are expensive!! We did loads of research and ended up building our own soda can stove. It’s a stove well, made out of a soda can!! Before embarking on our journey across America and back, and then down…
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