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Then the questions came... Why do you want to go to South America when you live in such a great place? ...How about all your things?...Are you serious about riding your bikes? ...What are you going to do about your jobs? These were all good questions but we had answers.
We were both enjoying our jobs, Matt as an engineering manager and me as an elementary school teacher, but we had a lifetime of work ahead of us. Why not take a year off? Hadn't we been saving our money with the hopes of traveling before we started a family? Why not go now? And so we did.
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For
years we dreamed of traveling through South America. Its varied geography,
people, and language appealed to us for different reasons. We knew that
to experience the culture, see the countrysides, and take part in the
Latin American lifestyle, we would need at least six months. The original
plan was to load up our backpacks and let planes, trains, and buses do
the work. Later, Matt threw out the idea of bicycling the continent. Having
never pedaled more than 50 miles or carried more than a water bottle,
the idea struck me as a bit nuts but exciting.
Why
wouldn't two 28 year-olds want to spend a year learning Spanish and exploring
the southern hemisphere? Why not sell our cars and house in Utah, put
all our comfortable things into storage, and live out of our tent? Wasn't
this a perfect time to escape the rat race and celebrate our 5th wedding
anniversary in a foreign country? Considering that my second knee surgery
this year had gone so well, why not ride our bikes through some of the
toughest terrain on earth?