We found a campground nearby, parked in the grass, made some dinner of tuna, rice, and sriracha, and then steeled ourselves for the next...

If there's anything that this trip has taught me -- is to embrace things going awry. A few weeks prior Vitali and I had discussed our...

I had read about Triglav National Park in Slovenia and quickly became convinced the Julian Alps were the perfect place to spend 10 days...

(Scroll to the end of the post for a tl;dr of the trek.) We departed the border crossing deeply relieved that we had it made it back into...

(This is Vitali's first post! Leandra's commentary is added as picture captions or in parentheses.) Day 1: February 12 The alarm clock...

This post covers the second half of our journey down the Carretera Austral -- through the region of Aysén. On February 1st, after...

After spending two nights indoors we had mapped out the next three weeks in Chile and were quite confident in our plan, our constitutions...

Chile is divided into "regiones", similar to our states. This post covers where we visited in the Los Rios (the Rivers), and the Los...

We found ourselves first in line for the border crossing back into the United States at 8AM, right when it was supposed to open. The...