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From Chile

By SammyK on Mon, Nov 10th 08 at 12:40PM | Comments (7)
After just 4 days in Torres del Paine which is in Patagonia in Chile, I am so glad I am now in a warm and cosy hostel. Torres del Paine is a... More...
By William on Wed, Nov 5th 08 at 06:14PM | Comments (7)
Tomorrow is the start of what I consider the biggest event of the trip so far.  The culmination of our journey south.  Accompanied by a guy... More...
By William on Mon, Nov 3rd 08 at 04:31PM | Comments (10)
Sunday morning I set out to have an adventure.  I had spent almost a week surrounded by awesome mountains of Patagonia and had yet to climb any... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Nov 1st 08 at 09:01AM | Comments (12)
Yesterday was Halloween. I certainly miss being with friends in the States. I'm sure there was a rocking awesome party at Ashlee's house. What did... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Oct 31st 08 at 06:09PM | Comments (5)
Today is the first major holiday that William and I are spending outside of the States on our one-year journey. And what are we doing to celebrate... More...
By SammyK on Tue, Oct 28th 08 at 11:44AM | Comments (2)
When we made our way from Santiago to Puerto Montt, we boarded a huge bus with Pullman Bus. These buses are amazing - double-deckers with seats that... More...
By William on Tue, Oct 28th 08 at 09:26AM | Comments (7)
Southern Chile. I absolutely love it. And we're not even to the good stuff yet. I was impressed by Puerto Montt when I first saw it.  A town... More...
By William on Sat, Oct 25th 08 at 09:05AM | Comments (2)
Next time you are in Chile and need to travel between cities, I highly recommend taking a Pullman Bus. In the states, taking a bus is generally... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Oct 23rd 08 at 03:39PM | Comments (13)
Thanks to the Travel Savvy Mom for this blog idea. We have had several people email us asking us how we made our website, or how we did something in... More...
By William on Wed, Oct 22nd 08 at 02:34PM | Comments (3)
I don't know if we could have chosen a South American city that is more different than Guatemala.  Santiago feels pretty much like we flew back... More...
By SammyK on Mon, Oct 20th 08 at 04:13PM | Comments (4)
**Update - Oct 22. Since we had so much video footage, Episode #8 is not about our transition from Guatemala to Chile. That'll be Episode... More...
By SammyK on Sun, Oct 19th 08 at 02:06PM | Comments (2)
There are a few essential items that you must have with you when traveling the world. There are the obvious ones - food, water, a place to sleep. But... More...
By SammyK on Sat, Oct 18th 08 at 06:37PM | Comments (1)
We made it! We're in Santiago, Chile! Our contact came through and is providing us with an awesome home stay for the week that we're in Santiago. We... More...

From Guatemala

By William on Thu, Oct 16th 08 at 01:30PM | Comments (3)
Today, our time in Guatemala comes to an end. Looking back, I'm amazed at how far it feels like we've come already.  Only a month has passed,... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Oct 16th 08 at 07:42AM | Comments (5)
We're headed to our first new country of our year-long journey today. We've been in Guatemala for exactly a month now. It has been very good. And... More...
By SammyK on Tue, Oct 14th 08 at 04:35PM | Comments (5)
Our adventure to Semuc Champey which is close to Coban, Guatemala started on Friday afternoon in Antigua. We loaded into a mini-van and made the... More...
By SammyK on Mon, Oct 13th 08 at 05:56PM | Comments (4)
Sam is in bed with a bad cold and will be unable to finish the new vidcast for tonight.  It will be uploaded sometime tomorrow.  Sorry to... More...
By William on Fri, Oct 10th 08 at 11:27AM | Comments (4)
It has been a good, relaxing, uneventful, week.  Sam has had a lot of web development work to do, so we've just been hanging out in... More...
By SammyK on Fri, Oct 10th 08 at 11:04AM | Comments (3)
I hate rain. No really. I hate it. It only took me about 30 days of constant rain for me to come to this realization. We happened to come to... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Oct 9th 08 at 10:02AM | Comments (3)
We're still trying to figure out how to do this whole "video podcast" thing. We learn something with each new video podcast. Something that William... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Oct 8th 08 at 09:13AM | Comments (1)
I found the guy! Dancing has been the single most influential aspect in my life over the past 3 years. It all started in 2005 when I came to Antigua... More...
By SammyK on Tue, Oct 7th 08 at 10:25AM | Comments (4)
We had one heckofa weekend. We went to a place called Panajachel. Panajachel has a lake called Atitlan. It is huge. Very grande. And around the edges... More...
By William on Tue, Oct 7th 08 at 09:19AM | Comments (5)
This past weekend I experienced the best moment of the trip so far.  We arranged a trip to Panajachel with some friends we made at the... More...
By William on Thu, Oct 2nd 08 at 07:42PM | Comments (3)
It is so satisfying to finally be learning some Spanish.  I obviously won't be having any deep conversations with anyone any time soon, but at... More...
By SammyK on Wed, Oct 1st 08 at 04:48PM | Comments (3)
Even though I learned a lot of Spanish while teaching a computer class when I used to live in Guatemala City, I have a very limited vocabulary and... More...
By SammyK on Mon, Sep 29th 08 at 02:10PM | Comments (8)
Yesterday's blog I wrote at this place called "The Bagel Barn" which had some really fast internet - a rarity in Guatemala. After I wrote the blog, I... More...
By SammyK on Sun, Sep 28th 08 at 12:52PM | Comments (6)
After waiting on our shuttle to Antigua for over an hour and a half, we finally arrived in Antigua, Guatemala on Friday evening. We were sent off... More...
By William on Sat, Sep 27th 08 at 06:14PM | Comments (7)
Well, we made it to antigua last night at about 6:00. A friendly but very not punctual shuttle service brought us here for just 5 dollars a piece. ... More...
By William on Fri, Sep 26th 08 at 12:39PM | Comments (1)
Ever since we've been here, Sam has talked about wanting to go to Zone 18, which is an extremely rough area of Guatemala City.  The kind of... More...
By SammyK on Thu, Sep 25th 08 at 05:49PM | Comments (1)
Yesterday we met up with John who is a missionary here in Guatemala. He took us around to some of the areas he is  working in, including the... More...
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