What continues to astound us is how we make new friends nearly every place we go. Some are through mutual friends, some are through chance encounters, all are enriching our journey incredibly. In the first 60 nights of travel, we have had dinner with other people roughly 48 times. Here is just a small sampling […]
RADIO CUSCO
Far off the beaten path, at a small AM radio station on the outskirts of Cusco, Jennifer is pulled into a local celebration — much to the mortification of her children.
REFLECTIONS ON LIFE ON THE ROAD: FRIENDSHIP
After only three weeks of travel, it’s extraordinary how different this journey has been compared with ever other trip we’ve taken in our lives. First of all, we’ve never kept a blog before, sharing our lives so openly. Nor have we made so many new and dear friends in such a short period of time. […]
ECUADORIAN DAYDREAM
When we first conceived of taking a trip around the world, we dreamed that we might make new friends in the places we visited. Perhaps these new friends would have children the same age as ours, maybe they might invite us to their house or their farm, maybe we would ride horses with them or […]