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Hola, readers! J here. I suppose that since we’re more than halfway through our trip that I’m overdue to write a post. We had not planned to visit Pucon, Chile, but then we read about the main tourist attraction – a climb to the top of active Villarrica Volcano. We had already failed on several [...]

J and I think a lot about the types of opportunities that this trip presents. Given how extensively we’ve traveled prior to this journey, we knew that we did not want this to merely be a longer version of our travels or a simple sum of parts. Instead, we have tried to seek out opportunities [...]

One of the most frequently asked questions we get about our trip pertains to the type of accommodations we are staying in. Are they comfortable? Are they clean? When we first told people we were traveling around the world, many automatically assumed that we were rich and/or that we would be slumming it in hostels, [...]

After an adrenaline-filled few days in Pucon, and in anticipation of our upcoming Patagonia trek, J and I decided to take an indulgent rest day and headed to the Termas Geometricas hot springs in Villarica National Park, a couple of hours outside of town. The are unlike any hot springs we have ever been to. [...]

I thought it would be fun to add to the Death-Defying Stunts series I started a while back, inspired by a recent adventure. I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that I’m jumping back and forth between stories from past and current locations on our round the world trip, so to get an idea of where [...]