Tales and Misadventures

Over the course of a year of traveling South America and renting cars, something was bound to happen. Read about it here.

We spent five days in this magnificent city, floating over it in cable cars, watching a female version of lucha libre and enjoying an 11-course meal.

A three-day detour at the Argentina-Bolivia border and severe altitude sickness showed our family all that money and U.S. privilege can’t buy.

You might not think of South America as a land of luxury. But that all depends on what you consider living the high life.

We expected the final week of our family gap year — in a small Costa Rican beach town — to be simple and uneventful. It was anything but.

A routine police checkpoint turns into a tense standoff when the police give us a choice: pay a $900 bribe or go to prison.

This is a journal of our final week driving around Ecuador. We visited the coast and took an excursion out to the “Poor Man’s Galapagos.”

This is a daily journal of our second week on the road. Our family spent three weeks driving around Ecuador in a rental car.

On the first week of our 3-week road trip around Ecuador, we give the day by day highlights as we descend from the Andes into the jungle.