Oh hayyy guys, guess what we did today? We were getting ready to backpack in South America, starting in Colombia. 

1. Bought bus tickets to Chi-town (Chicago) so we can make our flight!

2. Found a first Couchsurfing host in Medellin, Colombia!

3. Found a first farm to go to in Colombia!  It is primarily a coffee farm but has tons of other stuff.  Apparently their coffee was voted BEST in Colombia.  Ok, I’m excited!

4. Studied a ton of español.  I even wrote an email in Spanish and got my point across!

That’s it.  Only 2 more weeks of these super boring posts!  We’re so close to the real adventure beginning!

EDIT in 2024*** It’s funny how we say it as “boring post” while we are bragging about our cool lives.  The only people that I (Zach editing whoever’s original post) ever knew who did things like this were Couch Surfers that we hosted from Europe and whatever. We made it a long ways after all of this started, still going hard to this day. We travel a little slower now, and spend money on comfort, but our spirit for travel and adventure is still alive.

The trip ended up going a little differently than we had planned, but we covered a LOT of ground and stayed on the road for about 8 months. It was more expensive than we thought it would be, and we also decided we wanted to have a beer every now and then (more now than then).