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...
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...
La Paloma was a very good choice for our first stop, despite the 24 hours of travel it took to get there. It has a very different culture, which showed us some things we will be seeing around the world, and very nice people to show us the way. Did you know Uruguayans eat at around 8:00? I...
Everybody in South America is super kind to us. They give us directions to places, they help us learn their language, and all in all are super nice. I honestly did not think that the people here would like us as much as they do or be anywhere as nice to us as they are. On New Years Eve these...
Happy New Year! We rang in the new year with a bang here in La Paloma, Uruguay. At the stroke of midnight the sky was ablaze with fireworks. With no regulation of fireworks and little fire danger, fireworks were literally being launched all around us from backyards all around town. It was an amazing display and a unique experience...