Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on a small farm and produce artisanal wine? We spent the last four weeks living on tiny Finca La Rosendo just outside of San Rafael, in Mendoza province in western Argentina (www.fincalarosendo.com.ar or Finca.LaRosendo on Facebook). Vicky and …
Would you like to visit Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park sometime soon? Or, like me, do you like to fantasize about adventure travel? If so, this blog is for you!
I hope you have a chance to read Bob’s very personal blog from Torres del Paine posted earlier this …
This past week we visited Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, near the southern tip of the Andes about 250 miles north of Cape Horn. Located on the 51st parallel–about as far south of the equator as Quebec City is north of it–the park is famously windy, and the weather …
We arrived in Buenos Aires early Saturday morning, February 3, after 2 flights and 10 hours of flight time. We allowed ourselves three days for roaming around Buenos Aires, checking out the craft beer explosion underway near our AirBnB loft apartment ($63/night) in the trendy Palermo Soho neighborhood (yum), visiting …
After spending a few weeks at home with Dylan and Stephanie (thanks you two!) catching up with friends and attending to various matters that are more difficult to do from the road, we’re leaving town again on February 2 (coincidentally, the same date as our wedding in Paraguay way back …
We felt a sense of mourning earlier this month as we drove the final miles of our seemingly endless road trip—click here to see the final map of our travels. We know we are spoiled when we tell you that we felt eight months was not enough to do …
If you like the idea of experiencing the United States’ border with Mexico up close and personal in a dramatic natural landscape, you won’t find a better place to do it than Big Bend National Park.
It’s all about a bend in the river. The Rio Grande originates in the …
A few years ago, we had what, in hindsight, was clearly a pivotal moment. After a fabulous visit to a national park—Carlsbad Caverns, in New Mexico—Lorrie bought a massive guidebook to the 58 (now 59) national parks. In Your Guide to the National Parks, author Michael Oswald describes each …
We are weeks behind in our blogging. Aargh!! As I write this, on December 2, we are in West Texas in the heart of Big Bend National Park. Our last blog talked about Death Valley, which we visited from November 7-11 and we’ve travelled many miles since then. It’s hard …
We left Joshua Tree National Park for Death Valley with a sense of excitement and adventure. I vividly remembered a 2007 conversation in which a friend told me that Death Valley was one of her favorite national parks. “What??!!” I was astonished. More recently, we heard about others similarly saying …