La Condesa, Mexico City (blog post)

Biking to the airport! Paris

Lovers of travel and adventure, we jumped on the opportunity to take a one year sabbatical to delve into the Americas. We have but two set dates for when we will be where. June 5 we land in Mexico City at midnight after 22 hours of travel. July 12 we will arrive in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala to start four weeks of intensive Spanish classes. Between these two dates, we’ll be exploring southern Mexico, traveling, as a fellow backpacker/blogger put it, at the speed of enjoyment. Come August 7, a better command of the Spanish language and Latin American history under our money-belts, we’ll take to the rest of Guatemala before plunging southward through Central America (the countries are conveniently aligned one after another). And then onto South America where we’ll travel through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, before following the Pacific Coast down Chili and making our way back upward through Argentina. Or maybe after Bolivia we’ll head eastward and travel south through Argentina before coming back up through Chili. We’ll just have to see where the wind and enjoyment takes us.

Hierve el Agua, Oaxaca, Mexico (blog post)

Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City (blog post)

Spinning in Monte Albán, Mexico (blog post)

La Habana, Cuba (blog post)

Highest point in Central America, Tajumulco, Guatemala (blog post)

Love birds in Copán, Honduras (blog post)

Love birds in El Tunco, El Salvador (blog post)

Cathedral tower, Granada, Nicaragua (blog post)

Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica (blog post)

Panama Canal, Panamá (blog post)

San Blas Islands (blog post)

Botero Museum, Medellín, Colombia (blog post)

Basílica del Voto Nacional, Quito, Ecuador (blog post)

Sand dunes, Ica, Perú (blog post)

Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia (blog post)

Valle de la Luna, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (blog post)

Cataratas de Iguazu, Argentina (blog post)

Colonia, Uruguay (blog post)