December 2009

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01-Dec-2009 our life. daily. Get a load of this. Ali and Katy are making dinner. Not exactly cooking dinner, but you’ll hear no complaints from me. Yes, that is a rotisserie chicken, and yes, that is a can of cheese. Don’t ask. 02-Dec-2009 7:29 PM We all squeezed into the car today … Read More

November 2009

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01-Nov-2009 3:13 PM At the grocery store Ali and I were picking up a six-pack of Sol non-alcoholic beer when a couple of young ladies in tight fitting Sol clothing approached and told us they were having a promotion. For buying their beer they were giving us a water bottle. … Read More

October 2009

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01-Oct-2009 8:50 PM Yesterday we left the Bay Area and headed east to a new Bum friend’s house for a little work on the car. This new friend just happened to have a ’64 Porsche parked in his garage and had offered to help me replace our windshield seal. He … Read More

September 2009

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01-Sept-2009 1:29 PM This morning we went down to the doctor’s office to inquire about our new bill. I stayed in the waiting room while Ali went in to billing. Within a couple of minutes I could hear voices being raised. There was no glass breaking or loud screaming though, … Read More

August 2009

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02-Aug-2009 11:16 PM Man do we ever hate to fly. There is no worse mode of transportation to travel in. Granted you just don’t have a choice sometimes, but if we have the choice of driving 2000 miles or flying we’ll be hitting the road. Our flight from England started … Read More

July 2009

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july 1 2009 : beaune, france, europe Today was mainly one of those chores days that we need to have every once in a while to keep a happy non-malodorous home. I crawled under the bus and attempted to fix the oil seal on the reduction gear box for I … Read More

Cost to Drive the Americas

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What’s an epic drive like this cost? Here is our answer. This is truly every penny we spent from start to finish. (figures in USD) 28 countries, 59,734 miles, 525 days on the road, and 371 nights spent in the bus 1958 Volkswagen Panelvan (restored) 13,600     engine, transmission, … Read More

Borders

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This is a breakdown of exactly what was involved in taking our ’58 VW bus through the borders of Central & South America in 2008/2009. Also included is shipping information between Panama and Colombia and from Argentina to Germany. U.S./Mexico Border We’ve been through a couple of them, but the … Read More

June 2009

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june 1 2009 : wroclaw, poland, europe I don’t usually write about current events since this website is really just a diary for Ali and I and twenty years from now I don’t think most things that seem newsworthy now will make a bit of difference then. But yesterday while … Read More

May 2009

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may 1 2009 : argentina to germany by cargo ship We got to talking today about our honeymoon. It seems funny to us now but when we got married at twenty-three going on a Carnival cruise seemed to be the thing to do. That was the extent of our travel … Read More

April 2009

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april 1 2009 : torres del paine, chile, south america Crossed the border once again this afternoon, this time just down the road from Torres del Paine National Park. This place is the hikers mecca, which for us doesn’t really mean much. We did know there would be some killer … Read More

March 2009

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march 1 2009 : puno, perú, south america The sky today had to be the most sharply pure we’ve ever seen. All along the road we just pulled over to take in the colors and the clouds that almost didn’t seem real. The drive ran along the altiplano at around … Read More