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Ignacio Ampuero
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5 countries
4 continents
Day trip to Heidelberg
🇩🇪 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany🗓️ Sep 27, 2023📝 Sep 28
We checked out another beautiful town today near our home base of Darmstadt / Ober-Roden. This time we left Hesse and we went back into...
Japanese Baseball in Hiroshima
🇯🇵 Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan🗓️ Jun 29, 2023📝 Sep 14
Note - this a story of when we visited Japan back in June 2023. The first city we visited in Japan was Hiroshima, which I have a ton to write about,...
Hiking up Wank in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany🗓️ Sep 9, 2023📝 Sep 13
Joana and I had been in Germany for more than two months, focusing non-stop on finding jobs and a place to live when we realized we hadn't really...
Exploring Mainz
🇩🇪 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany🗓️ Aug 19, 2023📝 Aug 28
Why Mainz? It has been about a month since we arrived back in Germany with the goal of actually settling down here. While we still need to figure out...
Our Food Experience in Hanoi
🇻🇳 Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam🗓️ Jun 23 – 26, 2023📝 Jul 24
We arrived in Hanoi excited to try all the food! We had come from eating through Bangkok and Chiang Mai, which unfortunately did leave us arriving in...
Reflection on first night in Hanoi, Vietnam
🇻🇳 Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam🗓️ Jun 23, 2023📝 Jun 29
Our last city during our South East Asia swing of our trip was Hanoi, Vietnam. We stayed in and (mostly) explored the Old Quarter, which is a small...
Climbing Mount Whitney in Two Days, from Whitney Portal
🇺🇸 California, United States🗓️ Oct 16 – 17, 2021📝 May 12
The Peeking Goat's Club® (our nickname for our backpacking group) convinced me to do Mount Whitney again (having done it twice, once successfully,...
Backpacking Paria Canyon in Winter
🇺🇸 Marble Canyon, Arizona, United States🗓️ Dec 5 – 7, 2020📝 May 12
Our friend Heath told us about this hike through a slot canyon called Paria Canyon, AZ which looked amazing, so we decided to do it. Looking at the...
Fox Glacier Village, salmon farm noms, and rainy day beers
🇳🇿 Fox Glacier, West Coast, New Zealand🗓️ May 5, 2023📝 May 5
We haven't been the most lucky with the weather on our West Coast part of our New Zealand trip, as it has been rainy about half the time. This day,...
Hiking Farewell Spit, NZ
🇳🇿 Tasman, New Zealand🗓️ May 2, 2023📝 May 3
Before leaving Abel Tasman National Park and the very top of the South Island, Joana and I decided to head a bit further north and stay the night at...
Backpacking the Tongariro Northern Circuit (a.k.a: Mordor and Mount Doom)
🇳🇿 New Zealand🗓️ Apr 23 – 24, 2023📝 Apr 26
The first (and possibly only) more-than-1-night backpacking trip that Joana and I are planning on doing is the Tongariro Northern Circuit, one of New...