A monumental journey during a monumental year of our lives. And I am in Montana working at a local hospital in the beautiful Flathead Valley. From Costa Rica heat to Montana snow! Breaching orca, Juneau AK.

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We are officially expecting a baby! Truth be told, we were unofficially trying to have a baby while we were still driving around South America.

It was nice to be in an area of a national park and almost have the entire place to ourselves. No, this is not us.

Return to Valparaiso, Begining of an End. We returned to Valparaiso the afternoon the day before we would load the vehicles into the container. This would give us a chance to unload all our gear that would fly home with us, and not have to rush to meet our Customs Agent the next morning. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Valparaiso sits almost directly west of Mendoza. Just have to cross the Andes to get there.