We’re in Texas and working our way toward the east coast at last. We’ve set our shipping date from Jacksonville, Florida for March 15th, arriving in Zeebrugge, Belgium about the first of April. From there we will begin our European adventure. We are very excited to finally be on our way. Kathy has been very busy gathering information on places to see and things to do while Rick has been working on the Tiger and making all kinds of decisions on what sort of things we’ll need to take along. We’ve enjoyed our time back in the states, but have really itchy feet to be on the go again! Last June we completed our first trip to South America in fine style. Limping just a bit at the end perhaps, but happy nonetheless. I say limping only because both La Tortuga and ourselves were a bit tired out after a largely uninterrupted eighteen months of travel in Latin America. Various minor odds and ends on the rig were no longer operating at their best and we were both feeling the effects of lingering colds, general aches and pains, and a need for a bit of a rest. All that aside, we are very pleased with our experience and will enjoy reliving the memories of places seen, people met and lessons learned for a long, long time. It has been a marvelous experience and we feel very fortunate to have been able to accomplish most of the goals we set for ourselves two years ago. From Colombia in the north to Patagonia in the south, South America has opened itself up for us in a wonderful way, and we’ve truly enjoyed our stay. We had always felt that coming to South America would probably be a once in a lifetime deal for us, but now we’re not so sure. Instead, having met many travelers who have returned again and again to continue their explorations of this large and varied continent, we believe that we may well do the same. Specifically, we want to return in order to see Brasil and Bolivia, two countries we did not get to this time; as well as revisiting favorite places and finding new ones in many of the countries we have been to. Who knows whether or when this return visit will happen, but it’s out there for us if we so choose. If you are new to this web site, go to our South America page in order to link to the stories about the year we spent there. Our plans for now call for us to spend nine months or so in the US enjoying our own country for a change, taking care of various sorts of personal business and doing some needed refitting work on our Tiger. Then, in spring of 2010, we plan to ship La Tortuga over to Europe and begin our exploration of all that wonderful continent has to offer. For the most recent updates to this site, see the Latest Updates section at the top of this page. As you have time, we hope you’ll visit some of the other sites listed on our Links Page to connect you to other travelers you might enjoy, and our own Our Vehicle page continues to expand with added technical information as it comes to mind. To see more Photos of any country, use the link at the bottom of any narrative page, or go to the Photo Album Menu. Finally, for fellow travelers, we have posted our detailed Camping Logs for Central America, and South America where you can see where we’ve stayed and get information on fuel costs, propane availability and shopping locations we have found during our time in Latin America. We hope you enjoy not only our travels, but your own as well! “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” ~ Maya Angelou South_America.htmlSouth_America.htmlLinks.htmlOur_Vehicle.htmlPhoto_Albums_Menu.htmlPhoto_Albums_Menu.htmlCamping%3A_Central_America.htmlCamping%3A_South_America.htmlCamping%3A_South_America.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8

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  3. 2.   About Our Vehicle

  4. 3.   Photo Albums

  5. 4.   Camping Logs

  6. 5.   Links to Others

  7. 6.   Mexico

  8. 7.   Central America

  9. 8.   South America

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  12. Alaska, Newfoundland,

  13. Nova Scotia, the Yukon

Travelin-Tortuga.com

Tales from the road less traveled


We are Rick & Kathy Howe and we’ve been enjoying life on the road for  more than eight years.  We spent our first six years roaming North America, from California to Newfoundland and Alaska to Mexico.  In Summer 2007 we visited Alaska for the second time in order to begin a Pan American Adventure.  Since then we have moved south through Mexico and Central America and all the way to the farthest tip of South America before returning home to the US in June 2009.  We invite you to travel along with us, sharing both the good times and the hard times of this wandering life we love.  See our More About Us page to... well, learn more about us.

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  1. Latest Updates

  2. (February 2010):

  3. 1.You’re looking at the first change, a new Home Page, complete with a Map to show you where we are.

  4. 2.Our travels in the US & Canada in 2001~2006 can now be accessed - with more photos - on our US & Canada page.

  5. 3.A New Page: On the Edges will take you directly to our travels in Alaska, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Yukon.

  6. 4.Our latest Position Report can be found here: California Ins & Outs, although we’ve moved on a bit since this was posted.

Where are we now?  

In Texas, and heading east.

Website created by:

Rick Howe

Text and photos by:

Kathy & Rick Howe

 
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