After flying from Buenos Aires to Minneapolis for four days, then to Texas for a week, we’ve stopped in Belize (a small Central American country) for Elizabeth’s brother’s wedding. Our original plan was to stay here until early January, then spend a few weeks traveling around Guatemala. But, as travel plans do, ours have changed. [...]
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Earlier this month we told you about Passports with Purpose, the awesome travel blogger fundraiser for Heifer International. It ends today, at 11:59 pm PST so make sure you get your raffle tickets now. Click here to get started. There are lots of great prizes, including our recycled Mounstainsmith Tour pack. Tickets are only $10, [...]
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“What are you doing here?” a local teenager asked us after he learned we were from the United States. Trelew isn’t exactly the top spot on most “Places to Visit in Argentina” lists. But perhaps it should be. Situated between Puerto Madryn, Punta Tombo, and Gaiman (a Welsh village with teahouses), Trelew is a great [...]
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Walk down any street in any town in Argentina at about 3:00 in the afternoon and you’ll see someone pouring hot water from a thermos into a gourd, drinking it through a straw, then passing it to a friend who repeats the process…. You drink it through a metal straw-like utensil (called a bombillo ) that has a filter on the end so the mate leaves can’t get through.
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However, walking down just a few blocks of the city revealed that with the sheer number of shops I would become either sick or broke (probably both) if sampling from each shop. We conducted our own taste testing of chocolate shops in Bariloche, Argentina.
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