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Tim & Hailey photographer/writer/adventuring team

(Culinary Adventures)

PATAGONIA

Luck and Losing in Chile's Lake District

Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley & Lake Titicaca

PATAGONIA

From where I sit, in a Parisian-style sidewalk cafe in a chic neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Patagonia is a few hundred miles and few...

Luck and Losing in Chile's Lake District

We’d been tracing Chile’s slender torso for a month and a half. Gone were the days of lazy, drifting vanlife — peacing out in the same...

Peru, part II: Cordillera Blanca

Our spirits now fortified against the most extreme of disappointments, the road from Peru’s north-west coast toward its mountainous...

Christmas Card, From Peru

We entered Peru in the days leading up to Christmas, with visions of ancient citadels, rippling green mountain peaks and perfectly formed...

Just another animal in the Galapagos

After two weeks in the Galapagos we’re back on the mainland. Back to the world of highways and supermarkets, too much rubbish and too...

(Not quite off) The beaten path

Back in Costa Rica - the land of pura vida and scarlet macaws, gallo pinto (ubiquitous rice and beans) and roadside gutters that can bury...

Life is not a straight line (nor is this trip)

There’s no fun way to lead into this story, so I’ll just start from the top. It was late February and we had been in Costa Rica for three...

Making new friends in Nicaragua

I’m starting to see travelers are their own sovereign nation. Self-governed, of course, but united nonetheless. We discover common...

Our El Salvador (in an eggshell)

El Salvador. A tiny country squeezed against the Pacific, nearly swallowed by Honduras and hard-pressed by Guatemala - never mind the...

From the tree to the cup: a specialty coffee tour in El Salvador

The small coffee-growing town of Juayúa sits cupped in the foothills between western El Salvador's Sierra Apaneca Ilamatepec mountains...