The 2007 Tahoe finally reached the end of it’s life. It had a good life, reaching 300,000 miles and having towed an Airstream around the country for a year. When I went shopping for a new car, something practical and reliable, I obviously opted for 1996 Land Cruiser located on the other side of the […]
Camping at Hanging Rock
A quick camping trip to Hanging Rock State Park in North Carolina. Rosy Red, our vintage VW Beetle, always makes weekend trips more adventurous. In this case, the trunk with our groceries inside wouldn’t open. Of course, it opened when we got back home at the end of the weekend. Enjoyed Wilson’s interactive ghost stories […]
Travel Makes School and Museums More Impactful
I was reminded today how our children’s lives and worldview will be forever impacted by our travels, in South America and other places. Outside of our museum in Raleigh, there is a giant globe showing the southern hemisphere. We’ve driven past this globe a thousand times, to the point that it’s an ignorable feature in […]
Pets Along the Way in Chile
This is Jane. Most of you know I’m all about pets. I’ve had butterflies, sea monkeys, ladybugs, Gary (you already know about Gary if you watch Jane’s Daily 3) and fireflies……….. Anyway, I’ve had a lot of pets. But there’s only one problem. You had to let the butterflies free, my sea monkeys died […]
North State Game Club, Chartered 1906
Our family is fortunate to belong to the oldest organized deer hunt in North Carolina, the North State Game Club. More than a century in existence, the club has rich history and traditions in hunting deer with hounds. At an annual cleanup, my brother was given a copy of a collection of documents, North State […]
Jack Fishing in Bahia de Banderas, Puerto Vallarta
In the next phase of my career, the phase getting going after our year of South American travels in 2022 / 2023, I’ve decided I want to find a business reason for continued involvement in other cultures and also access to new adventures. As such, I’ve opted to advise a software engineering company with operations […]
Swimming in the Amazon River
During our stay at Anavilhanas Lodge near Manaus, there was a dock, just off the resort. It had a bar, chairs, and paddle boards. We were all scared out of our minds when we found out the swimming area wasn’t gated in a specific area. We’d just be swimming in the wild amazon river. Still, […]
Graffiti and Street Art in Our South America Travels
During our traveling time in Chile, from Santiago to Manaus, a common sighting was graffiti. I’ll start from first to last. In Santiago, while we were driving around, we were bound to see a lot of meaningless words, a few drawings, and a lot of scribbles. In Pucon, they sprayed bushy eyebrows and mustaches on […]
Arrival and First Day in Manaus, Brazil
We traveled thousands of miles from Punta Arenas, Chile to Manaus, Brazil. It was a difficult day and night of travel. We flew from Punta Arenas to Santiago, Santiago to Sao Paulo, and Sao Paulo to Manaus, a city of 2.5 million people living in the Amazon. We arrived at the airport well after midnight, […]
Riding Horses at La Peninsula, Puerto Natales, Southern Patagonia
We’re not much of a horse riding family, and so we signed up for a new experience at La Peninsula ranch. We enjoyed riding horses so much on the first day (despite the wind and rain), we actually cancelled kayaking on the second day to ride horses again. The weather the second day was perfect. […]
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