Flashback: Honduras

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Sometimes it’s about the journey not the destination.  Bumping around in the back of an overloaded Toyota pick up truck on our way into “the heart of darkness” was not my idea of fun. Maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but I couldn’t get Conrad’s book out of my head.  We were going into the heart [...]

Photo: International Terminal

Bolivian Jungle Airport- Rurrenabanque

When I saw the airport in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia my first thought was to laugh.  A dirt runway and a decrepit building were all that marked the area as an airport.  We checked in for our flight, weighed our luggage and proceeded to wait for the plane to touch down. We had taken the18 hour bus [...]

Photo: Car Wash

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We were hiking with a group of expats and locals to a couchsurfing camping weekend in Honduras when we saw these guys washing their truck in the river.  The first time I saw a river car wash I thought the car had gotten stuck crossing the river, at least until the buckets of water started [...]

Flashback: Baja, Mexico

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It was about noon when we walked across the border into Mexico.  Although we didn’t want a trip itinerary, we had planned ourselves a little bit of a route through Baja to help get us started.  It was literally our first day of a two year journey and once we figured out where we had [...]