Author Archives: Steven Shoppman

The miner’s party pack.

December 15, 2008 – 6:35 pm

“Okay, mas rapido por favor,” Melissa said jokingly to the group. The guide turned and said, “Do you have somewhere you need to be this afternoon?” At this point we were already 5 levels deep in a Bolivian mine at 13,500 ft.

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New Video - Peninsula Valdes

November 27, 2008 – 11:24 am

A while back we went to Penisula Valdes, stayed at a historic hotel, got up close and personal with some wildlife and generally had an amazing time. Enjoy the video

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Off the grid for a few days.

November 18, 2008 – 9:14 am

We are headed into Northwest Argentina, followed by the Atacama Desert, eventually driving through the southern region of Bolivia where their famous salt flats reside and then to Santa Cruz where we will obtain our Brazilian visas for the Pantanal.  This means that we will be out of contact for about the next week; however, we already have some new content ready and will be working on some more while we make our way through this region and anytime we have Internet we will be uploading.

More importantly, we have been making some huge progress lately and by the time we enter the Pantanal we will have finished nearly 3/4 of the miles that we will drive in South America.  While we are going on almost 2 years for this journey, it is a true sense of accomplishment to be able to see the finish line.  I don’t want to get ahead of myself, as we still have some crazy adventures ahead of us…maybe even some of the craziest yet (still have to find a way around the Darien Gap), but to put this in perspective…

It is like we have been in University, now we are seniors and in the last semester.  Unlike all of the semesters before this one, we were always signing up for the next round of classes, this time the story is different.  I guess just like college, it is exciting and scary to think that the end is getting close.  Now the usual question that we get has much more meaning: What are you going to do when this is all over?

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New Video - New Photos - It is even more intense on video.

October 30, 2008 – 6:55 am

Just after leaving Buenos Aires, we were treated to two different delicious asados. It has now been about a month since then, and after spending a few hours editing the video together from our time there the experience was that much more intense. Sometimes when you are in the moment everything is happening so fast that you miss some of the little details, but after reviewing all of the video and photos the primitive style of cooking meat here in Argentina it is quite a larger extravaganza than I remembered.

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For those of you that might want to meet us…

October 23, 2008 – 10:44 am

I have updated the timeline on the site so that everyone can have an idea of where we will be in the coming months.  We would love to have more people join up, even if for short periods of time to say hello.  So to all of my friends that have not made it out to be part of the adventure, you better get planning, because we will be home soon.

The Timeline


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