by Zachary Houtenville | May 13, 2025 | TREK TALKS
Carnaval is arguably the most important holiday in South American. The pre-Lenten season—kicking off anytime from January to mid-April depending on where you are—is a time of parades, street parties, and community-wide celebrations that seem to vibrate through the...
by Zachary Houtenville | May 9, 2025 | Travel Tales
I’m not the greatest on a bicycle. Actually, scratch that—I’m downright cursed when it comes to anything that isn’t a car. First time on a regular bike? Crash. First time on a motorbike? Crash. I’m pretty sure I even managed to crash one of those chunky toy quad bikes...
by Zachary Houtenville | Nov 22, 2024 | THE PLAN
Clarification: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil This is it. A bit of a road map of what I’ll be doing over the next 4 months… ideally. The truth is who really knows. When I went to Thailand, there was no...