Travels in Latin America 1995:
Aconcagua and
Kevin wanted to get away from it all for this
30th Birthday, so we ditched the cold, gray
English winter for a cold-but-sunny two week expedition to climb
this Argentine peak is the tallest outside of
Central America 1997:
With Lisa 6 months pregnant tried to find a
destination that was close, safe and exotic.
When Intifada II
broke out and ruined our planned trip to
(after plans had been made and tickets purchased; damn geopolitics), we
switched gears radically.
Renting a Mercury Mountaineer the size of the Good Year blimp we packed up the
kid, our
friends Mary and Joel, and our faithful golden retriever Nike for a road trip
down to Bahia de
Angeles
The Andes 2002:
By the time she was nearly four, we figured
Zoe was old enough to handle the altitude and other health issues of the altiplano. And we sure had wanted to see
Our dear friend Lindsay had been resisting visiting
his lovely wife Estella's home town in
South America 2004:
The juxtaposition of Kevin's getting tenure, Lisa accruing some real sabbatical and the Plaxcos not having taken more than a two week trip in many years was just too much for us, so we packed the bags and ran off to South America for a month.
Time for some quality (if delightfully
challenging) daddy/daughter time: time, in other words, for an arduous overland
trip down into north central
Southern Central America 2006:
If it's Christmas, it must be time for
another challenging daddy/daughter trip: this time overlanding
from
Kayaking Baja 2007:
Lisa finally turned 40. Fancying ourselves kayakers, we decided to put it to the test in this grueling, alcohol fueled rave.
North America
Caribbean Europe
Africa Middle
East Asia Oceania