We travel the world with carry-on luggage and backpacks, but we have room for pickleball paddles. Our travels have taken us to five continents, and on that journey, we have had a whirlwind pickleball adventure. Our pickleball odyssey began in Costa Rica back in 2020. The owner of our hotel in Tamarindo invited Michael to play pickleball. Soon enough, we…
Uruguay was not on our list of countries to visit, but when we arrived in Buenos Aires, we decided to take a trip across the water to Colonia. Colonia is a small, charming town established in 1680 by the Portuguese. In 1995, the town was made an official UNESCO Heritage site. We bought a one-way ticket on Colonia Express. We…
By Lucas and Henry While we were in Buenos Aires, we took tango lessons. Tango is a dance you do with a partner, and you mainly use your feet. You can go fast and slow. It started in 1880 in the ports of Argentina and Uruguay. Tango was practiced by immigrants. It was a way for them to communicate with…
Our final stop on our six-month South America tour was Buenos Aires. We spent one month in a condo in the Colegiales neighborhood. It is a residential neighborhood between the Belgrano and Palermo neighborhoods. Buenos Aires is home to almost 13 million people. It feels like New York City, but the buildings are not as tall. The condo we stayed…
We said Adios to Bolivia. We took a one-hour and twenty-minute shuttle from Tupiza to the border at Villazon. It is easy to find a shuttle going in that direction at the bust station. Before crossing the border, we exchanged U.S. dollars for Argentina pesos at the blue rate. It is better to do that on the Bolivian side of…
The Uyuni Salt Flats are the main reason we chose to visit Bolivia. Known as Salar de Uyuni in Spanish, it is the world’s largest salt flat. It is located in southwest Bolivia and is almost 4,000 square miles in area. The salt flat formed from several lakes existing around forty thousand years ago but have since evaporated. Parts of…
We took our first overnight bus from La Paz to Sucre. It was a 12-hour trip. We arrived at the bus station in La Paz an hour and a half before our bus. We learned that we could have shown up and booked the bus tickets at a cheaper price than we paid online at www.ticketsbolivia.com. When we arrived, several…
La Paz is the highest administrative capital city in the world at an elevation of almost 12,000 feet. Originally, we plannted to spend two nights in La Paz, but we were so tired that we decided to stay for nine nights. We had to move Airbnbs during the say, but we stayed in the same area in the south of…
We did not make any plans for Bolivia before heading there other than our first couple of nights at an Airbnb in La Paz. We were busy with my family visiting Cusco, Machu Picchu, and Lake Titicaca. We also had planning fatigue- it is real! We spent an extra night in Puno before heading to Bolivia, so we would have…
After we took the evacuation train out of Aguas Calientes we took a 7 am tour bus from Cusco to Puno. The bus company is called Turismo Mer. The bus had about 40 people on it. The seats were comfortable and there was a bathroom on board (for peeing only). The trip from Cusco to Puno took about 11 hours…