Trekking the Quilotoa loop Arguments during navigation are the norm for Becky and I. Often if I am driving and Becky has to navigate, tempers will fray and there will be heated words. I’ll ope...Read More
Getting high in Quito It was a treat to board a metal bird again after so many buses; a short flight from Bogota took us to Quito, where we were greeted with rolling hills and mountains on our decent ...Read More
April 28th 2019 marks our anniversary of leaving life in Cape Town. I’ve asked Becky, Rico and Tiana to write down their thoughts and feelings from being on the road for one year. This blog is a...Read More
The main focus of our time in Santa Marta was around the work at the Tiempo de Juego foundation (https://tiempodejuego.org/). Day by day we built up relationships with the children and staff and...Read More
Leaving Cape Town wasn’t as difficult as I had envisaged. The trip had turned out to be the perfect tonic for our kids knowing that there was still a life for us there, their friends hadn’...Read More
We were up at 3:30 am for a 4am cab; Dean had kindly woken up and made us coffee – I think he wanted to make double sure that we weren’t staying any longer! We were gifted with a glorious ...Read More
The standing joke leading up to Christmas between the four of us was if Tiana felt ‘christmassy yet?’ The question was asked anytime we passed anything vaguely related to Christmas, and the answer...Read More
The ‘ Workaway’ placement was agreed for a month, but we hadn’t thought much about our onward plans. Japan had to be explored, and Christmas was rapidly approaching. It was going to be a v...Read More
It was strange that two families were living together under one roof having not know each other previously. Over the first few days, Yoshi and Kana outlined how their household was run but made us fee...Read More
It was quite something to think that the next chapter of our life was being decided by just one Skype call and a few emails; a leap of faith but the gut feeling was good. Japan hadn’t been on our li...Read More
From Hoi An we had to head back to Bangkok for an appointment for further blood tests for Rico to confirm that the septic arthritis had gone. Rico had been on antibiotics for around 6 weeks, and thank...Read More