Travels in Latin America (Best Photos)

In 2008 I began a journey of 16 months traveling around Latin America and the Caribbean. Along the way I visited with friends and family and traveled through 25 countries. Below you will find a map that shows my travel route. To sum it up, I first visited with my sister in Jamaica then returned to Arizona and traveled all the way to the bottom of South America entirely by land and sea. I returned to the top of South America in similar fashion, and then flew back to the States in time for a trip to Canada. The only flight on my journey south was from Central America to Cuba and back.



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The people, landscapes, mishaps, and adventures of my overseas experience were unforgettable. To condense this journey into a paragraph or two would not come close to doing it justice, still there are flashes of experiences that come to mind – Hearing the deafening crack of calving glaciers in Patagonia, seeing both ends of a full double rainbow above the ruins of Macchu Pichu, hitch-hiking the entire length of Cuba, visiting with my sister Jenny in Jamaica, being charged and thrown by a bull at a festival in Colombia, catching thieves and literally making them pay in Buenos Aires, traveling with my sister Katie in South America, dancing in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, sailing along the San Blas Islands from Panama to Colombia, reuniting with my Peace Corps community in Honduras, hitch-hiking the desolate route 40 to the bottom of Patagonia and meeting incredible people along the way, Sailing the keys of Belize and camping on small uninhabited islands; then there was Mexico, all of beautiful Mexico and the special people I met there. I have written about each of these amazing experiences and many more in separate blog postings. Below are links to some of the most entertaining stories of my trip. Below those links are the best photos I shot from my trip. Enjoy!

Hitch-hiking Route 40, Patagonia, Argentina

Visiting my sister Jenny in Jamaica with Jeremy

Reuniting with Peace Corps friends in Talanga, Honduras

Machu Picchu

Hitch-hiking through Cuba

Adventures with Flora

Colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Another beautiful town in Mexico, Guanajuato

Sailing from the north to the south of Belize

Traveling with Mike through Costa Rica

Festival in Colombia

Sailing from Panama to Colombia through the San Blas Islands

Fighting crime in Buenos Aires

Breathtaking Peritio Moreno Glacier in Patagonia, Argentina

Curritiba, Brazil

Gorgeous Valpariso, Chile