chronicling her global adventures with stories, digital photos and video through the website www.OurDistantJourney.com. To date, she has visited 40 countries on six continents. In 2003-2004, she took a four-and-half-month around the world with her husband and children.
Her travel philosophy is to experience the journey ‘authentically’, meaning that she minimizes the use of planes and try to use public transportation whenever feasible. She likes to mix visits to the iconic places in the world with the adventure that keeps travel fresh and exciting. Sandy believes that, through travel, she is supporting the local economy and encouraging the preservation of the world's special places.
We are in Winnipeg, Manitoba for a four hour train stop on our journey from Toronto to Vancouver. This gives us the opportunity to get off the train and see the city.
After 84 hours and about 2,800 miles of train travel we arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia at 8:30 am this morning, about one hour ahead of schedule.
We are getting ready to take another epic train journey in June – this time to Canada. We will board The Canadian train in Toronto, Ontario for a four night journey to Vancouver, British Columbia.
We recently returned from a two week trip to South America, visiting Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It was a tough journey, probably the most adventurous trip in several years that we have taken. I couldn’t help feeling at one point in the trip, however, that maybe I was getting too old for this.
Uruguay was the last country that we visited during our South American trip. Here we spent time in the historic city of Colonia del Sacramento and in the capital, Montevideo.
Darren and I are traveling in South America for two weeks, visiting Argentina , Paraguay , Brazil and Uruguay . Our first stop is Buenos Aires , which we reached via a 10-hour overnight flight from Dallas.