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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. The [...]

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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 stop for [...]

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.

As luck would have it, the liquid supplies — including toothpaste, shampoo, and sunscreen — that we purchased when we arrived in Argentina are now being squeezed to their very last drop…. While we’re baking Christmas cookies and singing carols, we’ll catch you up on the rest of our Argentina adventures — experiences in El Chalten, El Calafate, Bariloche, Trelew, and more that we didn’t have a chance to write about while we were here.

Eva gives money to the poor, chats it up with commoners, and scoffs in the faces of traditional women who tell her she can’t hold an office because she’s a woman and too young…. If you’ve still got a hankering for hearing “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” in Spanish (I know I did) here’s Nacha Guevara, the star of Eva: el gran musical argentino , singing it — “No llores por mí Argentina.”

Alas, to my disappointment, a typical breakfast in Argentina is a cup of coffee with milk ( cafe con leche ), a few croissants ( medialunas ), and a shot glass of carbonated water…. After two months in Argentina, I’ve gotten used to supplementing my hostel breakfast with fruit or yogurt to satiate my American desire for something more substantial.

While I loved the opportunity to take lots of cute photos of penguins at Punta Tombo, I was struck with the dilemmas of being an environmentally conscious traveler…. Whether it’s bringing a reusable water bottle to the airport, parking further away rather than driving in circles looking for a parking spot at the mall, or wrapping presents in the Sunday comics, every little bit helps.

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After much deliberation, we’ve decided to head back to Buenos Aires after El Chalten rather than going to Tierra del Fuego. My mom made an excellent point: unlike the glaciers of this region, Tierra del Fuego is not in danger of extinction. It will be there to return to someday.
And I think that’s a good [...]

After seeing penguins on Peninsula Valdes we wondered how much different it would be visiting Punta Tombo, home of over 600,000 Magellanic Penguins…. My favorite part was when the penguin parents would tire of standing over their chicks and suddenly just plop (like a bellyflop) right on top of the chicks.

Every once in a while when traveling for an extended period of time, you hit a wall, even when you’re in an amazing place. Traveling isn’t as exciting; it wears you down. It’s not quite homesickness, it’s just getting tired of being on the go, seeing so many new sights, not being able to take [...]

We’ve searched far and wide to create this list of 21 gifts for eco-conscious travelers. Whether you’re shopping for presents for Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, or just for fun, celebrate Cyber Monday the green way with our 2008 Holiday Shopping List.