Category: Nomad Life & Expenses

December 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Perú

We traveled over 1100 miles in December. We visited natural wonders and ancient ruins in the Northern Highlands of Perú around Chachapoyas and Nuevo Tingo. We crossed the Andes Mountains on an often one-lane road with steep drop-offs in a…

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November 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Ecuador & Perú

The first full five days of November were spent at our house sit in Cuenca, Ecuador. It was a bit of a hectic last week as we got ready to hit the road again and spent time enjoying the Fiestas…

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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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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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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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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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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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Nomad Life & Expenses January & February 2024

The start of a month of house sits We rang in the New Year in Mexico City, mostly recovered but still feeling the effects of whatever bug we had caught. Three days later on  January 3, we flew back to…

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Nomad Life Nov & Dec 2023 & CDMX Expenses

November started out special. Greg’s mom, Dossie, had mentioned visiting Brevard College where she and Perry first met. So on the first of November, we all hopped into the car, including Dossie’s miniature longhaired dachshund, Penny, and drove a few…

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