Dave Go Round

Labor Day. Meaning that no one is actually doing any labor. Non-labor-doing is something that Argentines take very seriously. The town looked dead. We had booked some days at a place called Córdoba Backpackers. After much walking, and very little signage, we arrived at our chosen crashpad only to be met with some confused resistance. [...]

We knew things had reached a peak when Pablo offered us his ex girlfriend saying, “Two guys, no problem for her.” Luckily for us, she was back in Buenos Aires and we were in Mendoza. I skipped a few steps there, so let me backtrack. Mendoza is an easy night bus ride from Buenos Aires. [...]

Buenos Aires was HUGE for me. This place was a constant wonderland filled with amazing characters. Despite getting my camera stolen just a few days into the adventure, we managed to get a ton of pictures of everything we ran into. Here are some of the highlights that are just too good to keep to [...]

It is hard for me to actually put into words just how excited I am about this one. After over three months of traveling solo, I am about to be reunited with one of my closest mates.  Traveling from the USA to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, [...]

I knew that getting out of San Pedro would be a challenge, but I thought I had timed it right. I was wrong. Timing is pretty difficult in Latin America for a North American. Punctuality is encouraged and expected more than most places in the world short of Japan. To try to plan trips and [...]

There were no neighbors. Just piles of rocks and holes in the ground. The fart smell of steam, the welcome scent of gas cans in orange pyramids on top of the jeeps. The Atacama Geysers. This morning was cold, as I mentioned before, and nearly lightless. The geysers that had drawn us out of bed [...]

It’s cold. The kind of cold that makes you think about what good firewood the bodies of your friends would make. We are all just meat popsicles. I can see my breath in the air in front of computer screen. We had two hours of power earlier from a gas generator somewhere on the premises [...]

All night bus rides have become something of a specialty of mine. So has getting ripped off. Luckily, when leaving La Paz for the second time, my wonderful hosts gave me yet another piece of superlative advice. If you go to the bus terminal and buy your bus ticket for Uyuni there, instead of paying [...]

Rurrenebaque is the best part of Bolivia. Aside from dynamite, because dynamite is just all around excellent. This includes the surrounding jungles and is, of course, a sweeping generalization. Getting to Rurrenebaque is rather easy from La Paz if you are willing to invest either the time or money; 20 hours on a bus, or$ [...]

I have heard from many people what a nice city this is. Then upon further probing, everyone seems to say they thought it would be a rathole and it turned out to be decent. I came into it the same way. Let me tell you, you may not want to spend extended amounts of time [...]