Filling In

If you've come here looking for a new post, let me redirect you. The entry I've written and posted most recently can be found here. By December of 2015 I had fallen many months behind in keeping up with current events. So I decided to skip ahead in time to post some of my more recent adventures. Now that I'm close to catching up on those, I'm going back to fill in posts I skipped over. I hope you still find them timely and enjoyable. I'm taking a pause in my travels, but I will get back on the road before long, and when I do, you'll be able to read about all of it right here.

Omaha Christmas - Dec 21, 2015-Jan 1, 2016

Having spent Thanksgiving with my daughters and in-laws in San Diego, I wanted to spend Christmas with my sister’s family in Omaha, particularly since her daughter had a baby girl I hadn’t seen yet. While I was in Omaha, my high school friend and I took in Joslyn Museum, which I hadn’t been to since grade school.

Walkabout - Nov 30-Dec 14, 2015

With a month to fill between Thanksgiving in San Diego, and flying from there for to Omaha for Christmas, I didn’t want to just sit in an RV park. I needed a short excursion that didn’t repeat territory I’d already covered. Though I’d crossed the state before, there was still plenty I hadn’t seen in Arizona, so I set out on the most intentionally unplanned trip I’d taken yet.

Up the River - Oct 15-16, 2015

After completing two weeks in Patagonia, our tour group flew to Buenos Aires to travel back to the States the next day. However, most of our flights didn’t leave until that evening, so Sebastian, our diligent OAT trip leader, scheduled an activity not originally on our itinerary to keep us occupied our last morning. It gave us an unusual and unexpected perspective into another aspect of Argentine life.

Rivers of Ice - Oct 12-14, 2015

After a day of exploring the spectacular peaks of Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, we wondered how a second day in the park could hold a candle to that. The answer came by way of a very different sort of adventure.

Peaks of Blue - Oct 11, 2015

“The Eighth Wonder of the World” is how our guide described it, and I won’t argue with that. Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chile is a place of unique and startling beauty.

Deep South - Oct 10-11, 2015

Next time you look at a world map, notice how far the southern tip of South America extends: much further south than Africa or Tasmania in Australia. You really can’t get further south on land without being on Antarctica itself. That’s where the next leg of our tour took us, the tip of South America.