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August 28 – 30, 2024. Otavalo was the first Ecuadorian city we set foot in after leaving Colombia. We had asked our taxi driver at the border to take us to the bus stop in Tulcan, but while we were…
December found us in Beaufort, SC, taking care of an 83 lb. hound named Sammy. We try to divide up our house-sitting chores. In Chapel Hill, I was mostly in charge of the dog, Tori, taking her on long walks…
We have been house-sitting for just over 3 months straight. It has been a mixture of good, useful, and sometimes not-so-ideal experiences. Not all the houses we have stayed in are as clean as I’d like. Occasionally, they are dark,…
August 28 – 29, 2024. “Estoy borracho,” said the Ecuadorian man. If he had said, “Soy borracho,” we might have thought Borracho was his name. But no. He meant that he was inebriated. To put any doubts to rest, he…
August 19 – 28, 2024. Getting to the church was easy enough. We just ordered a taxi through Uber and had it take us to the teleférico (gondola). We rode the teleférico into the canyon where Santuario de Nuestra Señora…
We began the month in Hillsborough in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. There, we were house-sitting with a dog named Rakwa. We spent a lot of time working on the van, but also managed to get out a…
In September, we began a series of back-to-back house sits that will last until April 1, 2026. As with most things we do, we fell into this string of sits before we even had a plan. The first sit came…
We spent 362 days traveling around South America with backpacks. And although I wasn’t able to keep up with posts about all the places we went, I was able to keep up with our expenses. So here they are, the…
We arrived back in the US on May 30 after one year traveling around South America. It was good to be back in the country we are most familiar with and to start a new adventure. Greg’s mom, Dossie, had…
On May 1st, we left Yanque, Perú, and headed for Arequipa, the second biggest city in the country. We spent a week in Arequipa before taking an all-day bus ride to Nazca – home of the famous Nazca Lines. After…
