Goodbye America — Hello Asia

We’ve got a great “little!?” 130 sqm (1,400 sq. ft.) Airbnb apartment in the Providencia neighborhood of Santiago, Chile for the next couple days. Just a few days remain on our current South America travels!

After starting in the Spring of 2023 when we set foot on this southern continent for the first time ever we’ve managed to visit seven countries and learned so much about our southern neighbors.

Visiting the places are great. Meeting the people is better. We collected a handful of both from visits such as seeing the memorable street murals of Bogota, to the Larco museum in Lima, and Chile’s remote Easter Island. And from the glorious thermal hot springs of Papallacta, Ecuador to the pristine wind-swept beaches of Punta del Este, Uruguay. And don’t even get us started about Brazil. Hint: the party does not end on Fat Tuesday.

Bless each and every one of our new South American friends — Vo, Carina, Alexi, Jesus, Fabian, Ivan, Cristofer, Cami and all the rest. Without getting to know you and sharing our stories we would be far less fulfilled and informed.

So, goodbye South America. But we still need to…go to Rio, Medellin and Patagonia! And if we someday return to Buenos Aires we’ll walk as slowly as possible down the broad, leafy streets well after sunset and settle into *any* seat in a perfectly lit, well-trafficed sidewalk restaurant to nibble on good Italian-inspired cuisine and sip Argentian wine, including Sposato Family Vineyards. If we do, we’ll double our stay to two months next time!

So we are soon off to the United States for six long nights to talk to the Internal Revenue Service, bounce Grandson Archie on our knees and love on just a few friends and family.

And soon we take the big Pacific puddle jump to Asia. It’s been two years! We’ve missed it. Let’s go: Naoshima, Seminyak, Surabaya, Dambulla, Kuala Lumpur, Chiang Mai, Chennai and Hanoi. Come along!

Check out our hotel choices, past and future, and pics of some of our activities for…

Ecuador - Colombia - Peru - Argentina - Uruguay - Brazil - Chile

Japan - Indonesia - Sri Lanka - India - Malaysia - Thailand - Vietnam

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