Boston by Bus

Hello All.

Life here in Santiago became very routine and part of my routine became not updating my blog.

Lots has happened since I last wrote on here nearly 5 months ago and we have had a lot of fun. Bree and I traveled to the south of Chile to a town called Pucon where we went to some amazing hot springs and did some horseback riding. Bree´s parents visited for a week and we visited some vineyards. Bree and her parents also went to a very nice spa and resort a little ways north of santiago. We have been snowboarding and skiing in the mountains here. Some awesome waist high powder in 10,000 ft mountains. My mom came to visit and we went up to the Atacama desert in the north of Chile. We visited some crazy landscapes and hiked Volcan Lascar.

However none of that is what this post is about. This post is about the adventures that are to come. Bree and I have decided that, rather than continue working, we instead are going to use the money we have made to travel home. By Bus. We are starting are trip by heading into Buenos Aires where we will spend a few days. After BA we will head north to Iguazu falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil. Given the high reciprocity fees for entering Brazil and Bolivia we are skirting the borders and heading into northwestern Argentina to Salta. From Salta we travel back into Northern Chile and up to Peru.

In Peru we go to lake Titicaca and then Cuzco and Machu Picchu. After the holy land we travel west to Lima. From Lima our plans get a little more relaxed and we may head to some beaches on the border of Peru and Ecuador or we may just travel straight to Ecuador. Maybe we will skip Ecuador all together and head right to Bogota, Colombia. It all depends on how we are feeling and how our wallets are feeling.

Either way we will be heading to Bogota at some point. Now before I continue I would like to say that Colombia is very safe for travelers. 15 years ago this may not have been the case but now it is very safe. This is especially true in the areas we will be visiting. Colombia is trying to improve it´s tourism and loves travelers. The drug wars are confined to the border of Colombia and Brasil where we aren´t going. So before everyone says "Oh No Not Colombia!!" know that everyone who travels to Colombia these days says it´s the best country in the world, the people are outrageously friendly, and it´s safe.

From Bogota we travel to the Carribean coast to a city called Cartagena. Cartagena is an old beautiful carribean port. We will spend some time traveling around the northern shore of Colombia and then we will take a boat from Cartagena to Panama. We take a sailboat and spend a week traveling to some islands and spearfishing and snorkeling until we get to Colon Panama.

We will immediately leave Colon and travel to Panama City. From Panama city we go to an area called Bocas del Torre near the border of Costa Rica. Bocas del Torre are a series of islands on the carribean coast of Panama. Somewhere around this time Bree´s friend Sarah may fly down and meet us. Whether it is in Costa Rica or Panama or at all we aren´t sure yet. At Bocas del Torre we will hop around to some small islands and then go to Costa Rica.

Costa Rica may be the end of our trip but if we manage to save some money we hopefully will have some time to explore Costa Rica. If everything goes really well we will be able to continue on to Honduras, Nicoragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Belize. Maybe even Mexico but that is not very likely. If we can continue heading north for as long as possible until we leave the southern regions of Mexico it would be great to then fly home.

Who knows how far we will get or what we will end up doing. This is a very rough itinerary and we probably will have some changes. The idea of this journey is that we can do whatever we want. It´s an adventure. If we decide we want to do something different or we find anything exciting we´ll go ahead and change our plans.


Since we are traveling without laptops we may or may not be able to update with photos along the way but we will try to find a way. When we get home (in October? November? September?)we´ll get all of the photos put together in a nice looooong presentation to bore everyone to death.


So we leave in the morning and the next post will be from Buenos Aires!