Author: Mike
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The Southern Reaches of Patagonia
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe’ve spent the last ten days exploring the southern reaches of Patagonia – a week in Ushuaia on the Argentine side and then a few days in Punta Arenas on the Chilean side. It’s a beautiful part of South America and covers a huge area, so we plan to also spend time… Read more
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Some of the Most Beautiful Waterfalls on the Planet
Reading Time: 8 minutesOther than the cruise, we didn’t have Argentina on our top 20 countries to visit during this journey but our friend, Jonette, mentioned Iguazu Falls while we were visiting her in Minneapolis, and we decided to hop up to see them since we were relatively close. And what a great decision that… Read more
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Our Seventh Continent!
Reading Time: 9 minutesOn the morning of January 21st, we got a four-mile cardio walk in following the same route through various parks and then grabbed our belongings at the hotel to get a local bus from the area near the hotel to the cruise terminal in Buenos Aires. We arrived at the terminal around… Read more
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Buenos Dias from Buenos Aires
Reading Time: 4 minutesYear number two started on Saturday morning in Bozeman, Montana. We had a perfect visit for a few days with the Coley family and all met up for breakfast at Jam! Afterward, Chad and Lucy dropped us off at the airport for our 11:55am flight to Atlanta. It left a little late… Read more
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Home for the Holidays
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are back with a journal update as we are ready to start year number two on this nomadic journey. We’ve been in the States for almost two months and have had a fantastic time. The highlight was the time we have been able to spend with friends and family in different… Read more
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Headed Home for the Holidays
Reading Time: 3 minutesOur last morning (Wednesday) in Nepal was spent getting packed, having bananas and oatmeal at home and then walking down to Avocado Café for lunch. I had spinach lasagna and Sandy had a BLT sandwich and we shared a goat cheese salad. Our taxi arrived at 3:45pm and we arrived at the… Read more
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Finishing Our Time in Nepal
Reading Time: 7 minutesLast Wednesday, we moved from Bhaktapur back to our apartment in Kathmandu for our last week in Nepal. Breakfast was great again at Hotel Traditional and our taxi was right on time at 11am to take us the short 30 minutes or so to Kathmandu. We settled back into the apartment and… Read more
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Bhaktapur Maintains Its Medieval Charm
Reading Time: 6 minutesSunday provided us with another moving day. Of interest, we moved to our 55th location (place of sleeping is how I will define that) since we sold our house at the end of February. We are averaging 4.8 nights in each location. Tika arranged a taxi to pick us up from the… Read more
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Life in Pokhara
Reading Time: 9 minutesAfter the trek and Sandy’s solo exploration of Pokhara, we had about a week-and-half to explore the area together and enjoy some relaxation time. In terms of normal life tasks, we took the opportunity to get laundry done a couple of times, we moved from the top floor apartment to the ground… Read more
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Mike on the Ghorepani – Poon Hill Trek
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt seems to me that when one thinks of visiting Nepal, trekking in the Himalayas must be one of the first activities that comes to mind. I knew it was something I wanted to do while we were here and it was less of a priority for Sandy, so I was off… Read more