Home Sweet Home: Final Thoughts

Never ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to. Our parents, our most avid and perhaps only blog followers, learned this lesson the hard way when they jointly picked us up from the SFO airport.

“So, are you two already planning your next trip?” They jokingly asked us mere hours after our return to US soil.

Their smiling faces faded to worry as we began detailing the next several adventures we’ve already begun to plan. Perhaps we should have let them enjoy our safe return a while longer and given their ulcers a bit of a break. Next time.

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Patagonia: So Much More Than a Clothing Brand You Can’t Afford

The Patagonia portion of our trip opened with a very wonderful, welcome change: friends!

Kristy and I enjoy each others’ company very much, but when you spend literally every moment of your day with one other person, occasionally the conversation wants for some additional voices. Kristy will often start a sentence with, “did you hear that they recently did a study…” and I have to cut her off because it was a mutual friend that posted that article on Facebook, and I just read it too.

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Fakesgiving, Navidad – No Verdad, and Goodbye For Now

Now I know no one feels sorry for us as we leave on our great adventure, but it is tough to leave. 6 months can be a lengthy period of time and I’m not fond of goodbyes.

My sense of adventure has taken me from Wisconsin to Minnesota, all over Europe, to my new home in California, and now South America. I’m no stranger to goodbyes but that doesn’t make them any easier. Especially, since Marea and I are leaving during the biggest family and friends celebrations of them all- Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Luckily, we’re spoiled enough to have it all.

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