Eating is easily one of the best things about traveling. Exploring restaurants, unusual street food, and ordering something that you don’t know what the hell it is are always some of my favorite undertakings while abroad. With Colombia being a huge country filled with many different regions, there has been no shortage of culinary […]
Caribbean Colombia is hot. Really, really hot. It took us all of 2 nights to decide we were going to pay up the extra few bucks a night for air conditioning in our room. We wanted to ease into our trip, so the Caribbean seemed like the perfect place to start. We flew into […]
This was not exactly how we expected to start our trip. Sweating like a pig, stomping up and down 65⁰ muddy mountain inclines, stomachs twisting in cramps, and with 3 more days of this laying ahead. When we first decided to start our adventure in Colombia we wanted to begin with a trek to […]
What do you think of when you hear the words Key West? Is it Ernest Hemingway? Cruise ships? Fat, drunken tourist making fools of themselves? Key lime pie? Stupid Jimmy Buffet songs? After finally visiting this Caribbean town stuck in America I can tell you that all of these things are there in spades. You […]
Getting ready to leave for a trip is always more fun than coming back from one – mostly because packing is roughly 1,000x more fun than unpacking. There is the fun of imagining what your next week, month, or year will look like – Will it rain? Will I need something formal? Will I […]
When we leave for our journey, being from families as spread out as ours, leaving isn’t just going on a trip; it’s saying goodbye to our first home as adults and a married couple. We have already planned our new home once we return, so I’m just going to take a few minutes to share our […]
We did it. We worked our asses off and saved a lot. After years of longing to travel South America, we finally begin our journey December 10th with a direct flight to Cartegena, Colombia. We cut out concerts, fancy restaurants, and vacations. We went into our boss’s offices and said thanks but no thanks. […]