Back to daily life

There's no time to ask ourselves why we're back or if we want to be back: our daily life takes over again as if we had never gone. We've been back for 2 months, and only now we get down to conclude this chapter.

It's impossible to capture this trip in a few lines, but if we really had to, that's how it could look like:

8 countries
45 towns
84 days
340 hours in bus
14800 km covered

best meal: grilled Patagonian lamb in Villa O'higgins
best bus service: playing loto and winning a bottle of wine between Mendoza and Bariloche
worst bus trip: 11h bus between Sucre and Uyuni, Bolivia. No AC, no service and no room for legs
Coldest place: 6am 4900m in the Altiplano, Bolivia. Just about freezing point
Warmest place: Iguazu falls, 36°C
Most expensive meal: 50USD plate of seafood in Montevideo
Cheapest hotel: 2USD in Isla del Sol, Lake Titicaca

If anyone is thinking about doing such a trip some day, just one advice: do it now! If not, daily routine will just keep you from doing it... Although it seems impossible before you start, you kind of get into a daily rythm when you're there: get to a new town, look for a cheap place, drop your bags, go around town, sleep, go to the bus station, spend a day on the bus and then repeat the sequence, again and again....

Here is the finalised map of the trip.

Back in Germany, we still feel the need to communicate with our family and friends so you can still follow us under the following blog:

http://fernsprecher.blogspot.com/

We finally realised something after almost 15,000 km: there's plenty to see just around the corner! Here are a few examples from the centre in Frankfurt: Sunset in the Frankfurt Skyline, musician pupet on a busy saturday, and a local asparagus dealer!

This is just to let you wait until our next trip!