South American Adventure

Dylan and I have begun our year long adventure in South America! We are taking the next 12ish months to visit the many gems SA has to offer, meet new friends and improve our Spanish.

We are starting out in Cartagena, Colombia and will be taking Spanish language classes and living with a local family for a few weeks. It is currently 85 degrees with 96% humidity. Quite a change from Seattle where it was 35 degrees last night and an even bigger change from Wyoming where it was 20 below zero when we moved away four weeks ago. Courtesy of the Wilderness First Responder course that we just completed, we know it will take us 2 to 3 weeks to become acclimated... the weeks until then will likely be a struggle. Don't worry, we will try to expedite the process by spending plenty of time on the beach, blinding innocent passersby with our white (and in Dylan's case translucent) skin.

After the two weeks of classes, our itinerary is up in the air. We have several destinations we hope to reach, but no timeframe. As a planner at heart, it has been difficult for me to willingly "go with the flow", but I am nonetheless excited to see what this year will bring. Dylan's fortune cookie the other night foretold that "travelling South will bring unexpected happiness". Cheers to that!