Our Travel Plans
We finally made it to Chile, our original destination! Here is an update on the remainder of our trip. Patrick left on Monday, after spending 3 ½ weeks in Ecuador and Peru with us. Connor leaves from Santiago on August 22nd so that he can start his freshman year of high school with his classmates. He will spend his last week of the trip snowboarding in Portillo, Chile with us. He will stay with our friends/neighbors, the Kellermans, until we return.
Quinn, Paul and I will return home on October 5th. We will spend the last two months of the trip in Chile and Argentina, then either sell or ship the minivan. Our original plan was to reach Portillo, Chile, then drive home, resulting in a nine month trip. Our feeling now is that we absolutely do not want to drive all of the way home and deal with shipping our car from Columbia to Panama. We are starting to get tired of being on the road and think that we will be very ready to return in a couple months. Yet, we are excited about some upcoming new adventures: skilling/snowboarding, wine tasting and ranch stays.
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hwy1alltheway
Hi! This is Yuki from Tokyo.
I have been enjoying your diary and the great photos.
You can be a professional photographer by the end of the trip!
The photos from Machu Pichu remind me our honeymoon… 20 years ago.
The boys look very grown up(including Paul!).
Be safe and enjoy!! Yuki
We can’t wait to hear about your last leg of the trip — and can’t wait to have you guys back home too!! Love & Miss you!! Lisa & Michael xoxoxo
I just saw Patrick last night. He came over for dinner and dropped off a few souvenirs from your trip. I served him (and two friends) the Chili Paul gave me at X-mas that has been sitting in my freezer. It was delicious! Paul is a thousand miles away- but still da man! I had Patrick take a photo of Elijah wearing his Alpaca hat and shaking his new maracas. I asked Patrick to send you the photo. It will be great to have you both home and I’m looking forward to watching some football with da boyz,…
October is a good month to be coming home. Still some great golf to be had at Sharp’s Park (you still have two rounds of golf in the bank for Cache Creek- Paul) and fall wine tastings in Napa. Looking forward to seeing you then.