After all these years, I felt it was time to write down and share my delicious holiday eggnog recipe. 10 years ago, when I started making nog as a holiday tradition, there were only a handful of recipes out there…
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“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
Our next journey was what should have been a six-hour bus ride up to another coastal town called La Serena. This is where we experienced our first and only bus breakdown, costing us three hours of wait time on the…
With four days in Argentina drinking the best malbec in the world now under our belts, we were ready to begin exploring the next country on our tour of South America, Chile. Being late April, that area of the world…
Our revised plan to travel longer in South America included a flight down to Santiago Chile. From there, we planned to travel through northern Chile and into Bolivia, followed by Peru. Before any of that was to happen, and since…
So far in Ecuador we had checked out the bustling market of Otavalo, explored the old colonial streets of the capitol city, Quito, and spent an amazing three days exploring Cotopaxi National Park with some relaxation time at the Secret…
We spent just over five weeks in Colombia, a bit more time than we had planned, but we loved it. By the time we crossed into Ecuador, it was already the end of March, and we needed to decide on…
Our time in Medellin was the longest we had spent anywhere on our second leg of our journey, so no doubt it sucked us in and won us over!
We landed in Colombia after five days of sailing through the beautiful San Blas Islands of Panama, and while the sailing trip went extremely well, we were definitely ready to get some land under our feet. Our first stop on…
Since we’ve been back on the road, a question we get asked often is how does truck life compare to backpack life. Obviously, we miss our truck, that goes without saying. Poppins has taken on a life of her own….