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jbuhler This road of life
A few days after we got the van back from Buenos Aires, our family was hit with some very bad news. A cancer that my mother fought ten years ago…
The Best Travel Bag in the World
People planning their own trips always want to know what gear we recommend. Over the next few weeks, as part of our post-trip roundup, we’ll be sharing some of our…
Pony Homecoming
We got our van back! Tuesday afternoon, as Team USA was losing to Team Belgium, we took Milo in a rental car and drove down to Port Hueneme in Ventura…
Statistics
In contrast with Stephanie’s right-brain retrospectives, I wanted to post some left-brained numbers about the trip: Time on the road: 621 days, or 1 year, 8 months, and 14 days.…
Retrospective Número Uno
When I find myself thinking of our trip, it comes back to me in bits and pieces that look something like this. People continue to ask us about our favorite…
May in Pictures
Posting this very late!
Coming home
My friends here have a specific term we use when talking about the act of returning from a long trip: re-entry. I’m not quite sure who coined it (Sam? Lindsay?),…
The final countdown
We are going home TOMORROW! I’ve thought about home so much as a mental escape that it has become hard to believe it is a real place, far away, where…
Violence and security
After money, the number-two topic that people like to ask us about our trip is safety. I first heard it from my friend’s uncle in Utah. She had told me…
Signs
Here is a little gallery of some of the signs we saw on the road in Patagonia. Useful information or good advice in every one of them.