Monthly Archives: May 2019

Buenos Aires.

April 15, 2019 – May 12, 2019

Buenos Aires is often referred to as “the Paris of South America”. It is a multicultural city, full of parrillas (steak house), red wine, weekend ferias (craft/antique fairs), tango dancers and magnificent buildings.

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Montevideo

April 8, 2018 – April 15, 2018

We had booked a “roof-top cabin” in the historic centre of Montevideo for a week. We tried to pack light, but we were going to be without our truck for about 7.5 weeks, so the bags ended up being pretty heavy, despite our best efforts. We struggled with our bags and Piper through the streets of Montevideo, quickly overheating in the midday sun. We arrived at our building, hauled our bags up two interior flights of stairs and were led to an outdoor, circular, metal stairway that would lead us to the roof and our accommodations. We certainly did not anticipate the drama that was about to unfold.

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Seymour Gets Stuffed

April 8, 2018

All those hours spent weaving our way through narrow streets in pueblos in Mexico, along barely wide enough “roads” that hung off of cliffs in Peru, through four lane city highways packed six cars wide….they have really paid off. After partly airing down the tires and rear suspension to meet the height limitations of the container, Derek, without even breaking a sweat, expertly backed Seymour into a glove tight shipping container, with nary a scratch nor a dent. All this without the use of side mirrors (they were folded in so that Seymour would fit), nor rearview mirror, as all you see when you look in it is our camper. There was a man in the container, behind the truck, shouting instructions to Derek, in Spanish…but Derek could neither see nor hear the man. But with the help of another worker outside of the container, Seymour officially got stuffed.

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