Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson. ― Sukhraj S. Dhillon We realized that our blogs show a skewed perspective of our favorite moments that occur during our lives on the road. However, interwoven with those moments are hot and dusty...
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. – John O’Donohue Our adventure so far has largely unfolded along the banks of a river. On December 29th we landed in Montevideo on the coast of the massive Rio de la Plata, which Chad will argue is not a river, but rather a...
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ― Anaïs Nin Okay, I think Lobos Marinos (as they call them here), or Marine Wolves is a much better name than Sea Lions. This was the kids first official dive as certified scuba divers. But getting there wasn’t a piece of cake. Having these animal encounters with the penguins...
I think the penguins were worth every second of the 20 hours in a bus it took to get here and the 10:30 p.m. dinner (which I didn’t enjoy as much as I could’ve). It was amazing looking behind you and seeing a mother feeding her baby then walking forward and almost step on a penguin crossing the...
On the boat I was amazed watching the colossal sized chunks of the glacier splash as they hit the water. When I first put on the crampons, I was surprised how light they were. I was expecting them to weigh ten pounds each. When I got on the glacier I was wowed by how many...
Everything you can imagine is real ~ Pablo Picasso We visited the surreal Perito Moreno Glacier, one of many glaciers here in Argentina’s Glacier National Park. This area is the 3rd largest reserve of freshwater on the planet, with the Perito Moreno glacier measuring up to 5 km wide. The magnitude of a glacier with a face that is...
None of us really knew what to expect with this awesome adventure, but here are some lessons that we learned right off the bat. Our bodies need to be broken in. Our feet are transitioning into “summer feet” barefoot and flip flops are an adjustment. Our skin is molting from the sun. We are getting used to our backpacks...