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October 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Ecuador

We began October in the lovely Mindo, exploring the cloud forest, birding, and searching for waterfalls. But we were soon headed south. We had a house sit to get to by October 15 in Cuenca. We took a bus from…

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La Feria de las Flores de Medellín 2024

August 3 – 11, 2024. We love a good festival! And lucky us, we were in Medellín for one of Colombia’s biggest festivals, La Feria de las Flores. The first Feria de las Flores was held in 1957 to celebrate…

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September 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Ecuador

  September was a weird month for us. We spent most of it in Quito, Ecuador, where we intended to take Spanish classes. But then we decided to teach ourselves instead of going to school. We bought various online programs…

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Medellín

June 8 – August 13, 2024 To get from the Medellín airport to the city you travel 15 miles, 5 of which go through the second-longest tunnel in Latin America, the Túnel de Oriente. In the tunnel, there are signs…

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August 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Colombia

We moved around a lot in August. We started out in Envigado in the southern part of Medellín but moved to the Manila neighborhood adjacent to the trendy and hip Poblado neighborhood when our friend Wayne came to visit us…

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Pride and Pickpocketing

The Metro was packed. It was Sunday afternoon, and we were heading to our first cultural event with our Spanish School in Medellín. At our stop, the majority of the passengers poured out. We stayed with the flow, funneling one…

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July 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Colombia

July was a busy month. We moved twice, a friend from the US visited us, and we took 3 1/2 weeks of Spanish classes. The first 5 days were spent in the Manila area of Poblado finishing up the 4-week…

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One week in Cartagena de Indias

We landed in the morning and walked down the plane’s stairs into the blazing sunlight. It had been a long flight. Just 24 hours previously, we were washing the sheets and cleaning the house of our last house-sit in Colorado….

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June 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Colombia

June started for us somewhere in the air on the way to South America. We saw the sunrise on our layover in Panama and landed in full daylight in Cartagena. We had come to Colombia to fulfill our plan of…

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Nomad Life & Expenses March, April, & May 2024

The months of March, April, and May were all spent house-sitting in Colorado. We took care of 14 different pets in 7 different households which we lined up with our Trusted House Sitters subscription*. Our main focus, besides taking care…

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