Saying goodbye to our big kids in California, we completed a marathon four-day drive to Colorado to arrive in time for the 2nd Annual Juniper Jamboree. This community event is organized by Juniper Overland out of Denver, the shop that installed our Alu-Cab Canopy Camper and made our home on wheels what it is!
Along the way, we grabbed several opportunities to facilitate Caspian’s learning. This is every-day-normal for us, not unique to this video, but we don’t always show it so obviously. For anyone who has wondered how Caspian is educated without sitting down with textbooks every day, hopefully this video will give you a better idea.
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Next time you find yourself in Grand Junction or Leadville, check out Eureka! McConnell Science Museum and the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, respectively. The lovely one-mile hike featured in our video is the Leadville Fish Hatchery Nature Trail.
In our next video, we spend a week wandering around charming Colorado mountain towns like Buena Vista, Salida, Breckenridge, and Frisco. We camp in several ways–from established national forest campgrounds to wild camping–see a ghost town, play in a mountain stream. It’s a special time for our family as we wrap up our two-month visit to the U.S. and we hope you’ll join us for it.
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In real time, we are back in Argentina! We flew out of Denver on July 10 and got back to Mendoza on July 11. It’s been a whirlwind ever since.
With it being winter here (lows often below freezing), we went straight into an Airbnb. Pros: we love the neighborhood and there is gated parking for Dauntless right outside our door. Cons: pretty much everything else.
We’ve been told this is the harshest winter since 1976. Assuming that is true, it makes sense that our Airbnb isn’t insulated for below-freezing temperatures or equipped with heaters to actually make the whole space inhabitable.
So why stay in Mendoza? Why not go back north or pretty much anywhere warmer? Well, because I’ve been needing a hysterectomy for more than a year and we decided this was the best opportunity before shipping to Africa next year. The day after we landed, I started the pre-op appointments and my surgery was this past Thursday.
We plan to leave Mendoza on August 20, which will give me a month to recover. With the way things are going, I’m not sure we’ll last in this Airbnb until then. But we could use the time to plan the rest of our route through South America and shipping to South Africa. Big things are coming up fast.
Thanks for joining us on this journey.
-B
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