Home Sweet Home: Final Thoughts

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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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Paracas: All Aboard the Gringo Trail!

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Since we did no route planning prior to arriving in Peru, after three days in Lima we had a big decision to make: north or south? We ultimately chose to head down the coast, hitting up as many small towns as possible and eventually looping up to Cusco. Turns out this is a bit of a gringo trail, but for good reason as there are some really pretty places amidst all the tourist nonsense and plentiful “desayuno Americano” options.

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Fakesgiving, Navidad – No Verdad, and Goodbye For Now

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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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Preparing my wardrobe…and soul

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When you’re planning a long trip, one of the first irrational things you decide is that none of your current wardrobe could possibly be suitable for your new life of adventure. There’s some truth to that – when living out of a backpack you want clothes that are lighter and less keen to cling to your sweat and smells than your usual cotton numbers. But it still feels wrong to spend so much time obsessing about travel fashion choices when your standards of general appearance and cleanliness are inevitably going to deteriorate after the first four days.

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