Latin America
Travels in Latin America 1995: Aconcagua and Chile
Kevin wanted to get away from it all for this 30th Birthday,
so we ditched the cold, gray
English winter for a cold-but-sunny two week expedition to climb Aconcagua.
At 6980m,
this Argentine peak is the tallest outside of Asia.
Central America 1997: Costa Rica
With Lisa 6 months pregnant tried to find a destination that
was close, safe and exotic.
Costa Rica fit the bill.
Mexico 2001: Baja
When Intifada II broke out and ruined our planned trip to Lebanon,
Jordan, Syria and Israel
(after plans had been made and tickets purchased; damn geopolitics), we switched
gears radically.
Renting a Mercury Mountaineer the size of the Good Year Blimp we packed up the
kid, our
friends Mary and Joel and our faithful golden retriever Nike for a road trip
down to Bahia de Los
Angeles.
The Andes 2002: Peru and Bolivia
By the time she was nearly four, we figured Zoe was old enough
to handle the altitude and other health issues of the altiplano. And we sure
had wanted to see Lake Titicaca for quite a while...
Our dear friend Lindsay had been resisting visiting his lovely wife Estella's home town in Central Mexico. When Kevin and Lisa learned that the city, La Piedad, was near the highlights of central Mexico, a trip plan was hatched.
South America 2004: Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
The juxtaposition of Kevin's getting tenure, Lisa accruing some real sabbatical and the Plaxco's not having taken more than a two week trip in many years was just too much for us, so we packed the bags and ran off to South America for a month.
Northern Mexico, 2005: Mexico
Time for some quality (if delightfully challenging) daddy/daughter time: time, in other words, for an arduous overland trip down into north central mexico's Baranqa del Cobre (Copper Canyon)
Southern Central America, 2006: Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
If it's Christmas, it must be time for another challenging daddy/daughter trip: this time overlanding from Managua, Nicaragua to Panama, where we met up with Lisa for a week's family holiday.
Baja Kayaking, 2007: Mexico
Lisa's 40th seemed like a good excuse to skive off and go kayaking for a week.
Baja X-mas 2008: Mexico
Christmas time? Time for another daddy-daughter trip. This time overlanding from home to the tip of Baja by train, bus and rental car.
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