Salta: Music, Museums, and Mountains

Chad and I really enjoyed our time in Salta, Argentina. It’s a place we hadn’t really heard of before our prior leg in South America. We met a fellow American traveler in Peru and he told us he’d like Salta more than Buenos Aires. Since we’d just come from our incredible Buenos Aires experience, we…

Buenos Aires: We’re Home Again

We’ve been back in Buenos Aires for two weeks now and it definitely feels like home again. We so enjoyed our first trip to Buenos Aires in January-February 2024 that we knew we’d want to return very soon. Of course, there are many other places in the world that we also wanted to visit so…

Overnight Trip to Jujuy

We knew when we chose Salta, Argentina, as a long stay destination in this leg that part of the draw was its proximity to spectacular nature that we’d need to get out of the city to enjoy. But we didn’t realize just how spectacular the nature would be. When we arrived at our Salta Airbnb,…

Epic Iguazu Falls

The experience I was looking forward to the most coming into this leg was seeing Iguazu Falls, which we visited during Labor Day weekend. Everyone I’d spoken to who’d been there and all the blogs I read about it called the falls awe-inspiring. And, because it is on the border of Brazil and Argentina, it…

Porto de Galinhas: Not Really Home

It took us a while to warm up to Porto de Galinhas, and so I decided not to do my traditional “We’re Home” post halfway through like a normally do for long stays. Although we warmed up to it over time and were even a (very) little bit sad to leave at the end of…