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We figured it was about time to post some photos, so here they are. Enjoy!

Filed under: Argentina, Chile on February 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

One thing that you can’t help but notice about Latin America is the overabundance of plastic shopping bags. Not only at the supermarket—where the checkers refuse to put more than three items in a single bag—but covering the entire landscape as well. Even this writer from the NY Times describing Los Glaciares National Park in [...]

Filed under: General on February 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The rest of our time in Mendoza didn’t go exactly as planned…I had to do some maintenance on the bikes, and that took longer than anticipated. We found a decent bike shop in Mendoza to true our wheels, and buy some replacement chains (actual Shimano parts or equivalent are hard to find down here). And [...]

Filed under: Argentina, Chile on February 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »

That’s what the posted signs told us when we crossed the border into Argentina at La Quiaca. We’ve traveled pretty far in total so far, but we’ve only biked just over 7,000 kms up to now, so we’re going to need to be a little more disciplined (and luckier) than we have been so far on the [...]

Filed under: Argentina on January 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Here is a picture of our favorite kitty, enjoying the holiday season. And even though her mom and dad spent a couple of nights sleeping with another kitten at Ramon’s house in Salta, it was just a meaningless fling…

Filed under: Cat Blogging on December 31st, 2007 | No Comments »

I suppose I should also note that on November 10, 2007, Cindy and I became aunt and uncle to this little guy:

Braden Christopher Fisher is his name, and he’s surely the only kid on his block wearing booties from Guatemala (guess who sent him those!). We’re looking forward to making his acquaintance when we return.

Filed under: General on December 31st, 2007 | 1 Comment »

We got back from our Salar de Uyuni trip a couple of days ago (it was great—more on that later), and we’re hanging out in Uyuni for a few days while Cindy recovers from a small illness. So with nothing else to do but hang out, I decided to write up a review of our [...]

Filed under: Bolivia, General on December 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Since the War on Drugs in the US very clearly involves a lot of the countries we’ve traveled through, I thought I’d post this Rolling Stone piece, which details the history of the War on Drugs, calling itself “an anatomy of a failure”. Seems about right to me…

Filed under: General on December 4th, 2007 | No Comments »

Since we left La Paz, we put in 7 straight days on the bike, which is something I don’t think we’ve done since Baja California…so we are commemorating with a special post describing the journey!
Truth be told, one of the reasons we biked so many days in a row is because there are not a [...]

Filed under: Bolivia on November 30th, 2007 | No Comments »

Cindy and I are real wusses about riding in the rain, so the fact that we are biking through Bolivia at the beginning of the rainy season is a constant worry for us…is it going to be raining when we wake up? Should we wait for the rain to pass? Is the road going to take us under [...]

Filed under: Bolivia on November 21st, 2007 | No Comments »